International Journal of Cardiology: Heart & Vasculature (Jun 2022)

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement in patients with aortic stenosis and cardiac amyloidosis

  • Tasveer Khawaja,
  • Rahul Jaswaney,
  • Shilpkumar Arora,
  • Akhil Jain,
  • Nirav Arora,
  • Luis Augusto Palma Dallan,
  • Sunghan Yoon,
  • Mohammed Najeeb Osman,
  • Steven J. Filby,
  • Guilherme F. Attizzani

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 40
p. 101008

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Background: Though the co-prevalence of aortic stenosis (AS) and cardiac amyloidosis (CA) is increasingly recognized, the role of transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) in patients with CA remains unclear. Methods: The National Readmission Dataset (2016–18) and ICD-10 codes were used to identify those with CA and AS, in conjunction with TAVR status. The primary outcome was a composite of heart failure (HF) readmissions and all-cause mortality. All outcomes were followed up to 1-year with a median follow up time 172-days. Kaplan-Meier curves and multivariate cox-proportional hazard regression were used for time-to-event analysis. Results: Of 1,127 CA patients, 92 (8.2%) had undergone TAVR. Patients with CA who received TAVR were younger and more commonly had coronary artery disease (67.3% vs 44.2%). Teaching (93.6% vs 81.1%) and large hospitals (77.7% vs 59.3%) performed more TAVRs. In multivariate analysis, TAVR was associated with an improved primary outcome (8.9% vs 24.4%, HR:0.32; 95% CI 0.14–0.71, p = 0.007) and with reduced HF readmissions (3.8% vs 19.4%, HR:0.22; 95% CI 0.07–0.68, p = 0.008). All-cause mortality was numerically lower in TAVR patients with CA but did not reach statistical significance. Conclusions: CA patients who receive TAVR are younger, and the procedure is more commonly performed at large, teaching hospitals. TAVR was associated with a lower primary composite outcome of HF readmissions and all-cause mortality.

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