Association Between Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation Volume and Outcomes in the United States.
With the rapid advance of transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI), it is important to evaluate the relationship between TAVI volumes and outcomes. The aim of this study was to analyze in-hospital outcomes after TAVI stratified according to hospital volumes. Using the National Inpatient Sample files from 2012, hospitals performing transfemoral (TF)-TAVI and transapical (TA)-TAVI were divided into high-volume and low-volume centers. A total of 7,660 patients underwent TAVI in 256 hospitals in 2012. In the TF-TAVI cohort, multivariate logistic regression analyses demonstrated that low TF-TAVI volume status was an independent predictor of death and bleeding. In the TA-TAVI cohort, low volume status was a predictor of death, myocardial infarction, and need for permanent pacemaker. In addition, hospitals that performed low TA-TAVI volume were associated with significantly higher rate of death after surgical aortic valve replacement in comparison with the hospitals that perform high TA-TAVI volume (3.6% vs 2.3%, p <0.001). In conclusion, centers with lower volume of TAVI had more frequent adverse events compared with higher volume centers.
Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York. Electronic address: luk9003@med.cornell.edu.
Luke K
LK
Kim
Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York.
Robert M
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Minutello
Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York.
Dmitriy N
DN
Feldman
Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York.
Rajesh V
RV
Swaminathan
Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York.
Geoffrey
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Bergman
Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York.
Harsimran
H
Singh
Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York.
Ryan K
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Kaple
Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York.
S Chiu
SC
Wong
D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001024:Aortic Valve Stenosis / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012307:Risk Factors; D015996:Survival Rate / Q000639:trends; D065467:Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology