Prognostic impact of decisions taken by the heart team in patients evaluated for transcatheter aortic valve implantation》.pdf

+Model REPC-680; No. of Pages 9 ARTICLE IN PRESS Rev Port Cardiol. 2015;xxx(xx) :xxxxxx Revista Portuguesa de Cardiologia Portuguese Journal of Cardiology ORIGINAL ARTICLE Prognostic impact of decisions taken by the heart team in patients evaluated for transcatheter aortic valve implantation Diego Iglesiasa,∗ , Pablo Salinas b , Raúl Moreno c , Sergio García-Blas d , Luis Calvo c , Santiago Jiménez-Valero c , Ángel Sánchez-Recalde c , Guillermo Galeote c , María Mesa c , Ignacio a c José Plaza , José Luis López-Sendón a Hospital Universitario Infanta Sofía, San Sebastián de los Reyes, Madrid, Spain b Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain c Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid, Spain d Hospital Clinico Universitario, Valencia, Spain Received 9 December 2014; accepted 13 March 2015 KEYWORDS Abstract Aortic stenosis; Objective: To analyze long-term survival and predictors of mortality in patients evaluated for Surgical aortic valve transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) depending on the decision taken by the heart replacement; team. Transcatheter aortic Methods: All patients with severe aortic stenosis and high surgical risk evaluated for TAVI valve implantation between June 2008 and June 2012 were included. Patients were grouped according to the therapeutic strategy decided by the heart team. Mean follow-up was 16.6 months (maximum 55.3).