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. 2011 Dec 14;20(1):16–23. doi: 10.1007/s12471-011-0224-z

Table 2.

Thirty-day clinical outcome in patients undergoing TAVI and AVR

TAVI AVR p-value
n = 235 n = 24
Mortality, n (%)
- All-cause 20 (9) 2 (8) 1.0
- Cardiovascular cause 13 (6) 2 (8) 0.64
Myocardial infarction, n (%)
- All 3 (1) 1 (4) 0.32
- Periprocedural (<72 h) 2 (1) 0 1.0
Cerebrovascular complication, n (%)
- All1 20 (9) 2 (8) 1.0
- Major stroke 11 (5) 1 (4) 1.0
Vascular complication, n (%)
- All 42 (18) 0 0.036
- Major 24 (10) 0 0.14
Bleeding complication, n (%)
- All 67 (29) 2 (8) 0.049
- Life-threatening or disabling 21 (9) 2 (8) 1.0
Acute kidney injury, n (%)
- All 40 (17) 8 (33) 0.058
- Stage III 5 (2) 2 (8) 0.13
Cardiac re-intervention, n (%)
- AVR 1 (1) 0 1.0
- BAV 1 (1) 0 1.0
- Other2 1 (1) 2 (8) 0.023
New pacemaker implantation
- All 48 (21) 1 (4) 0.056
- For 3rd degree AV block 40 (17) 0 0.032
New atrial fibrillation 9 (5) 2 (11) 0.60
Repeat hospitalisation, n (%)3 3 (1) 0 1.0
Combined 30-day safety endpoint, n (%)4 55 (24) 6 (25) 1.0

AV atrioventricular, AVR aortic valve replacement, BAV balloon aortic valvuloplasty

Mutually non-exclusive analysis (≥1 event/patient possible)

1Including TIA

2Closure of severe paravalvar aortic regurgitation with Amplatzer closure device (n = 1) in TAVI group and resternotomy for severe aortic regurgitation (n = 1) and bleeding (n = 1) in AVR group

3For symptoms of valve-related dysfunction or cardiac decompensation

4Composite all-cause mortality, major stroke, major vascular complication, life-threatening bleeding, acute kidney injury - stage 3, peri-procedural myocardial infarction, repeat procedure for valve-related dysfunction (surgical or interventional)