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Health-Related Quality of Life After Transcatheter or Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement in High-Risk Patients with Severe Aortic Stenosis: an Updated Review of Literature

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Recent trials have highlighted the comparable mortality benefits and durability of the results for patients with severe aortic stenosis (AS) and high surgical risk managed with either transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) or surgical aortic valve replacement (AVR). Various national guidelines and international regulatory bodies have approved TAVR, thereby leading to potential wide usage and dissemination of this technique worldwide. Quality-of-life outcomes, in spite of being an important measure of success and acceptability of the procedure, have not been publicized as extensively. For high risk patients with severe AS, implementation of TAVR has resulted in comparable survival, but different and novel adverse events compared with AVR. We present an updated review focusing on the quality-of-life outcomes and issues with this new and important procedural approach.

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D. J. Kumbhani has received honoraria from American College of Cardiology and Somahlutions, Inc. G. Biondi-Zoccai has consulted/lectured for AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Sanofi Aventis. S. Chatterjee, P. Sardar, A. Chakraborty, M. S. Sabharwal, R. Ro, B. Pratap, C. P. Bavishi, and S. Bangalore declare that they have no conflict of interest.

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  1. Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, St. Luke’s - Roosevelt Hospital Center, Division of Cardiology, 1111 Amsterdam Avenue, Clark Building, 3rd floor, New York, NY, 10025, USA

    Saurav Chatterjee, Manpreet Singh Sabharwal, Richard Ro, Balaji Pratap & Chirag P. Bavishi

  2. Division of Cardiology, University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, TX, USA

    Dharam Jaydeep Kumbhani

  3. Department of Internal Medicine, Metropolitan Hospital Center-New York Medical College, New York, NY, USA

    Partha Sardar

  4. Division of Pulmonary Medicine and Critical Care, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Anasua Chakraborty

  5. Department of Medico-Surgical Sciences and Biotechnologies, Sapienza University of Rome, Latina, Italy

    Giuseppe Biondi-Zoccai

  6. Division of Cardiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA

    Sripal Bangalore

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Chatterjee, S., Kumbhani, D.J., Sardar, P. et al. Health-Related Quality of Life After Transcatheter or Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement in High-Risk Patients with Severe Aortic Stenosis: an Updated Review of Literature. Curr Cardiol Rep 16, 473 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11886-014-0473-8

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