Table 2.
Peri-procedural details
| logEuroSCORE ≥20% n/N (%) (n=890) |
logEuroSCORE <20% n/N (%) (n=789) |
P value | |
| Access route | <0.001 | ||
| TF | 232/890 (26.1) | 281/789 (35.6) | |
| TA | 642/890 (72.1) | 494/789 (62.6) | |
| Other | 16/890 (1.8) | 14/789 (1.8) | |
| Valve type | 0.007 | ||
| SAPIEN/SAPIEN XT | 735/890 (82.6) | 646/789 (81.9) | |
| ACURATE | 142/890 (16.0) | 142/789 (18.0) | |
| Others | 13/890 (1.5) | 1/789 (0.1) | |
| BAV predilation | 563/890 (63.3) | 552/789 (70.0) | 0.004 |
| Complications | |||
| Conversion to surgery | 4/890 (0.4) | 6/789 (0.8) | 0.530 |
| Major vascular complications | 13/871 (1.5) | 27/785 (3.4) | 0.010 |
| PPI | 66/869 (7.6) | 69/782 (8.8) | 0.363 |
| New arrhythmia | 244/871 (28.0) | 233/784 (29.7) | 0.444 |
| Moderate-to-severe PVL | 9/857 (1.1) | 9/750 (1.2) | 0.776 |
| AKI requiring dialysis | 7/858 (0.8) | 3/771 (0.4) | 0.349 |
| Postdilation | 146/889 (16.4) | 149/788 (18.9) | 0.182 |
| In-hospital mortality | 26/880 (3.0) | 21/788 (2.7) | 0.721 |
AKI, acute kidney injury; BAV, balloon aortic valvuloplasty; logEuroSCORE, logistic European System for Cardiac Operative Risk Evaluation; PPI, permanent pacemaker implantation; PVL, paravalvular leak; TA, transapical; TF, transfemoral.