Aortic valve replacement after previous heart surgery in high-risk patients: transapical aortic valve implantation versus conventional aortic valve replacement-a risk-adjusted and propensity score-based analysis.

Abstract

Cardiac reoperations have been associated with increased morbidity and mortality compared with first-time surgery. We analyzed our experience with reoperative aortic valve replacement (redo-AVR) and compared these results with those from patients who had undergone transapical aortic valve implantation (TA-AVI) as a second heart operation.

Journal

Journal ID (iso-abbrev): J. Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg.

Title: The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery

Publisher: Elsevier BV

ISSN (Electronic): 1097-685X

ISSN (Print): 0022-5223

Publication date (Electronic): Jul 2014

Volume: 148

Issue: 1

Affiliations

[1 ] Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany. Electronic address: [e-mail].

[2 ] Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.

[3 ] Institute of Medical Statistics, Informatics and Epidemiology, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.

[4 ] Department of Cardiology, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.

[5 ] Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Hospital Bochum, Bochum, Germany.

Article

Publisher Item ID: S0022-5223(13)00833-7

DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2013.07.046

PubMed ID: 24125091