Mortality after transcatheter versus surgical aortic valve replacement: an updated meta-analysis of randomised trials.
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ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:To determine whether transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) improves early (30-day) and midterm (1-year) mortality compared with surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR), we performed an updated meta-analysis of all the currently available randomised controlled trials (RCTs). METHODS:To identify all RCTs providing both 30-day and 1?year mortality after TAVI versus SAVR, PubMed and ClinicalTrials.gov were searched up to and including July 2019. A risk difference (RD) and its 95% confidence interval were generated using data of prespecified outcomes in both the TAVI and SAVR groups. Study-specific estimates were pooled using inverse variance-weighted averages of RDs in the random-effects model. RESULTS:We identified seven eligible high-quality RCTs including a total of 7631 as-treated patients. Pooled analyses demonstrated significantly lower 30-day (RD -0.60%; p?=?0.046) and 1?year all-cause mortality (RD -1.12%; p?=?0.03) after TAVI than after SAVR. No funnel plot asymmetry was detected for 30-day and 1?year mortality. Meta-regression analyses indicated that RDs of 30-day and 1?year mortality between TAVI and SAVR were not modulated by mean Society of Thoracic Surgeons Predicted Risk of Mortality score. Bleeding complications at 30 days and 1 year and stage 2/3 acute kidney injury at 30 days were significantly less frequent after TAVI than after SAVR, whereas major vascular complications and new permanent pacemaker implantation at 30 days and 1 year were significantly more frequent after TAVI than after SAVR. CONCLUSION:The best evidence from the present meta-analysis of all the currently available RCTs suggests that TAVI may reduce 30-day and 1?year all-cause mortality compared with SAVR.
SUBMITTER: Takagi H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7270388 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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