Open AccessTranscatheter, sutureless and conventional aortic-valve replacement: a network meta-analysis of 16,432 patients
Author(s) -
Declan Lloyd,
Jessica G.Y. Luc,
Ben Indja,
Vannessa Leung,
Nelson Wang,
Kevin Phan
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of thoracic disease
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.682
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 2077-6624
pISSN - 2072-1439
DOI - 10.21037/jtd.2018.12.27
Subject(s) - medicine , aortic valve replacement , cardiology , meta analysis , aortic valve , surgery , stenosis
Minimally invasive surgical techniques pose alternatives to conventional surgery for the treatment of aortic stenosis (AS). We present a Bayesian network analysis comparing Valve Academic Research Consortium-2 clinical outcomes between transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI), sutureless (SL-AVR) and conventional aortic valve replacement (CAVR).