Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Has Improved Short-Term but Similar Midterm Outcomes in Isolated Aortic Valve Replacement After Prior Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Tom C. Nguyen, MD, Vasilis C. Babaliaros, MD, Seyed Amirhossein Razavi, MD, Patrick D. Kilgo, MS, Chandan M. Devireddy, MD, Brad G. Leshnower, MD, Kreton Mavromatis, MD, Robert A. Guyton, MD, Mihir Kanitkar, MD, Stam Lerakis, MD, John Merlino, MD, Edward P. Chen, MD, Vinod H. Thourani, MD The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 98, Issue 4, Pages 1316-1324 (October 2014) DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2014.05.081 Copyright © 2014 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 1 Baseline (black bars) and new postoperative atrial fibrillation (gray bars) for patients undergoing surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) and transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR). The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2014 98, 1316-1324DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2014.05.081) Copyright © 2014 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 2 Kaplan-Meier survival estimates are shown (A) for patients undergoing surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR; solid line) and transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR; dashed line) and (B) for patients undergoing SAVR (gray dashed line), non-transfemoral TAVR (gray line), and transfemoral TAVR (black dashed line). The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2014 98, 1316-1324DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2014.05.081) Copyright © 2014 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions