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Hospital outcomes of transcatheter versus surgical aortic valve replacement in female in the United States.

Tomo AndoEmmanuel AkintoyeTesfaye TelilaAlexandros BriasoulisHisato TakagiTheodore SchreiberLuis AfonsoCindy L Grines
Published in: Catheterization and cardiovascular interventions : official journal of the Society for Cardiac Angiography & Interventions (2017)
TAVR may be a better option for those patients with underlying comorbidities that predispose them at higher risk for complications that was less observed in TAVR group. However, higher cost and increased risk of need for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, although rare, should be taken into consideration upon deciding the optimal mode for aortic valve replacement.
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