One in two patients develop AF after aortic valve replacement
Large study finds similar results for TAVI and surgical replacement
11th June 2019
Half of inpatients who undergo aortic valve replacement develop new-onset atrial fibrillation, a US study suggests.
The incidence of new-onset atrial fibrillation was 50.4% among transcatheter aortic-valve implantation (TAVI) hospitalisations and 50.1% among surgical aortic valve replacements, University of Minnesota researchers reported.
Their data, from the US’s National Inpatient Sample, covered more than 171,000 hospitalisations for aortic valve replacement (mean patient age 81), they wrote in JAMA Internal Medicine.