National Trends in Readmission Rates After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Versus Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement With Severe Aortic Stenosis

Focusing on the Long Game: Updates on Aortic Valve Research From the Valve Academic Research Consortium

“…Readmissions for both TAVR and SAVR have been declining in recent years, although TAVR-related admissions remain higher, possibly due to a combination of procedural and patient selection factors. 13,14 This new hospitalization endpoint will capture downstream healthcare utilization that may be present in TAVR, not SAVR patients, potentially favoring SAVR at first glance. However, the morbidity and direct economic costs associated with a given hospitalization are not necessarily captured under the proposed endpoint, as the endpoint equates re-hospitalization for brief diuretic therapy with hospitalization for cardiac arrest.…”