• Edward L Hannan, Zaza Samadashvili, Desmond Jordan, Thoralf M Sundt, Nicholas J Stamato, Stephen J Lahey, Jeffrey P Gold, Andrew Wechsler, Mohammed H Ashraf, Carlos Ruiz, Sean Wilson, and Craig R Smith.
• From the School of Public Health, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany (E.L.H., Z.S.); Department of Anesthesiology (D.J.) and Department of Surgery (C.R.S.), Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, New York, NY; Heart Center and Institute for Heart, Vascular and Stroke, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston (T.M.S.); Department of Cardiology, Campbell County Memorial Hospital, Gillette, WY (N.J.S.); Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Connecticut, Storrs (S.J.L.); University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha (J.P.G.); Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA (A.W.); Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Kaleida Health, Buffalo, NY (M.H.A.); Division of Structural and Congenital Heart Disease, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, NY (C.R.); and Department of Surgery, The Valley Hospital, Ridgewood, NJ (S.W.). elh03@health.state.ny.us.
• Circ Cardiovasc Interv. 2015 Aug 1; 8 (8): e002744.

BackgroundSeveral studies have compared short-term and medium-term mortality rates for patients with severe aortic stenosis undergoing transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) and surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR), but no studies have compared short-term readmission rates for the 2 procedures.Methods And ResultsNew York's Cardiac Surgery Reporting System was used to propensity match 617 TAVI and 1981 SAVR patients using numerous patient risk factors contained in the registry. The 389 propensity-matched pairs were then used to analyze differences in readmission rates between the 2 groups. TAVI and SAVR readmission rates were also compared for patients with a history of congestive heart failure and for patients aged ≥80. Also, reasons for readmission for TAVI and SAVR patients were examined and compared. Readmission rates were not statistically different for all propensity-matched TAVI and SAVR patients (respective rates, 18.8% and 19.3%; P=0.86). After further adjustment using a logistic regression model, there was still no significant difference (adjusted odds ratio, 0.97; 95% confidence interval [0.68-1.39]). For patients aged ≥80, the 30-day readmission rates were 19.9% and 22.0% (P=0.59), and when further adjusted using the logistic regression model, adjusted odds ratio=0.89 (0.55-1.45). For patients with a history of congestive heart failure, the respective rates were 22.8% and 20.4% (P=0.56), and with further adjustment, adjusted odds ratio became 1.15 (0.72-1.82).ConclusionsThere are no statistically significant differences between TAVI and SAVR patients in short-term readmission rates.© 2015 American Heart Association, Inc.

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