Clinical Outcomes in Surgical and Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: An ANZSCTS Database Review 2001–2019

Abstract

Since the last formal publication reporting on the findings of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgeons (ANZSCTS) database on surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) and transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) in 2016, transcatheter approaches have become common practice. There has been an increase in use of TAVR following large, randomised control trials that only report short-term outcomes in a selective cohort. This study aimed to report primary outcome measures and identify complications associated with SAVR and TAVR from a large national database.