Table 1.

Baseline Clinical and Echocardiographic Characteristics

TAVI, transcatheter aortic valve implantation; SAVR, surgical aortic valve replacement; OMT, optimal medical therapy; NYHA, New York Heart Association; Logistic EuroSCORE, logistic European System for Cardiac Operative Risk Evaluation.

^*,†In case of results with a p-value <0.05 from the 3-group comparison, three additional pairwise comparisons were performed between each two groups. Groups with a p-value <0.05 from the pairwise comparisons were labeled with ^*,†representing the groups with the higher and lower rates, respectively; i.e. The comparison between ^*(higher) vs. ^†(lower) was significant.

^‡Calculated by the modification of diet in renal disease formula.

^§Long-term use of bronchodilators or steroids for chronic lung disease, or forced expiratory volume in 1 second <75% of predicted.