29 Mart 2014 Cumartesi

Survival Benefit for TAVR More than Surgical treatment in Large-Chance Individuals

Transcatheter aortic valve substitute (TAVR), which has been slowly and cautiously coming into the clinical arena, will probably get a massive boost from a new trial displaying a substantial mortality advtange for TAVR more than classic surgical procedure.


Final results from the U.S. CoreValve Substantial-Risk Review had been presented at the American College of Cardiology in Washington, DC, and published concurrently in the New England Journal of Medicine. In the trial, 795 sufferers with significant aortic stenosis who who had been at higher risk for surgical treatment had been randomized to surgical aortic valve substitute (SAVR) or TAVR with the Medtronic Medtronic CoreValve device.


The headline information is the improved mortality with TAVR. In the as-handled analysis, at one year the fee of death was 14.two% in the TAVR group versus 19.one% in the SAVR group, a variation that was hugely important for noninferiority (P&lt0.001) and that reached significance for superiority (P=.04). A equivalent pattern occurred in the intention-to-treat evaluation: At one year, the rates of death were 13.9% for TAVR and 18.7% for SAVR (P&lt0.001 for non inferiority P=.04 for superiority).


Nevertheless, for the critical secondary endpoint of main adverse cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events at thirty days or discharge, TAVR did not meet the prespecified criteria for superiority (8.2% for TAVR vs. ten.9% for SAVR P=.ten). At thirty days, the stroke price was four.9% in the TAVR group and six.2% in the surgical group (P=.46). At 1 year, the strokes were 8.8% and twelve.6%, respectively (P=.10).


A lot more pacemakers were implanted in the TAVR group at 1 12 months (22.three% vs. eleven.three% for SAVR), and the TAVR group had a lot more key vascular issues. But bleeding complications occurred more regularly in the surgical procedure group.


In an interview with Rick Lange and David Hillis on CardioExchange, Columbia University interventional cardiologist Ajay Kirtane said that the trial “further tilts the stability toward TAVR in large-threat individuals.” He cautioned that it is unattainable at this stage to compare the CoreValve benefits with final results from the Sapien gadget in the Partner trials. “In the absence of a head-to-head comparison of the brief- and long-term functionality of these valves, it is truly challenging to speculate about valve-distinct distinctions, except theoretically,” he said. “I see this as a ‘win’ for TAVR as a complete.”



Survival Benefit for TAVR More than Surgical treatment in Large-Chance Individuals

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