title: Patient gender does not affect outcome after transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI).
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Female gender has recently been suggested to predict a beneficial outcome and lower mortality following transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI). The study aim was to address gender differences in outcome following TAVI and potentially to replicate these findings.
  
  
  METHODS
  The present single-center prospective registry of 326 patients with severe aortic stenosis treated by TAVI between 2008 and 2011 consisted of 181 women and 145 men.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The procedural risk was not significantly different between men and women at baseline. For all-cause mortality no difference was observed at 30 days and at 12 months after TAVI.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  While several baseline characteristics between men and women treated by TAVI were shown to be different among the study population, no difference was observed in survival between both genders.
authors.affiliation: Department for General and Interventional Cardiology, University Heart Center Hamburg, Germany. p.diemert@uke.de
authors.forename: Patrick
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Diemert
authors.affiliation: Department for Cardiovascular Surgery, University Heart Center Hamburg, Germany.
authors.forename: Moritz
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Seiffert
authors.affiliation: Department for General and Interventional Cardiology, University Heart Center Hamburg, Germany.
authors.forename: Renate
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Schnabel
authors.affiliation: Department for General and Interventional Cardiology, University Heart Center Hamburg, Germany.
authors.forename: Sandra
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wilde
authors.affiliation: Department for Cardiovascular Surgery, University Heart Center Hamburg, Germany.
authors.forename: Lennart
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Conradi
authors.affiliation: Department for Cardiovascular Surgery, University Heart Center Hamburg, Germany.
authors.forename: Johannes
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Schirmer
authors.affiliation: Department for General and Interventional Cardiology, University Heart Center Hamburg, Germany.
authors.forename: Dietmar
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Koschyk
authors.affiliation: Department for Cardiovascular Surgery, University Heart Center Hamburg, Germany.
authors.forename: Herrmann
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Reichenspurner
authors.affiliation: Department for General and Interventional Cardiology, University Heart Center Hamburg, Germany.
authors.forename: Stephan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Baldus
authors.affiliation: Department for Cardiovascular Surgery, University Heart Center Hamburg, Germany.
authors.forename: Hendrik
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Treede
authors.affiliation: Department for General and Interventional Cardiology, University Heart Center Hamburg, Germany.
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Blankenberg
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001024:Aortic Valve Stenosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy*; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000401:mortality; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany; D019918:Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000379:methods* / Q000401:mortality; D006801:Humans; D053208:Kaplan-Meier Estimate; D008297:Male; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012042:Registries; D012307:Risk Factors; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D012737:Sex Factors; D016896:Treatment Outcome