Trends in aortic valve replacement for elderly patients in the United States, 1999-2011

There is a need to describe contemporary outcomes of surgical aortic valve replacement (AVR) as the population ages and transcatheter options emerge. To assess procedure rates and outcomes of surgical AVR over time. A serial cross-sectional cohort study of 82,755,924 Medicare fee-for-service benefic...

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Published in:	JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association Vol. 310; no. 19; p. 2078
Main Authors:	Barreto-Filho, José Augusto, Wang, Yun, Dodson, John A, Desai, Mayur M, Sugeng, Lissa, Geirsson, Arnar, Krumholz, Harlan M
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States 20.11.2013
Subjects:	Age Factors Aged Aged, 80 and over Aortic Valve - surgery Bicuspid Aortic Valve Disease Black or African American Black People - statistics & numerical data Cohort Studies Coronary Artery Bypass - mortality Coronary Artery Bypass - statistics & numerical data Cross-Sectional Studies Fee-for-Service Plans - statistics & numerical data Female Heart Defects, Congenital - surgery Heart Valve Diseases - surgery Heart Valve Prosthesis Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation - instrumentation Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation - mortality Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation - statistics & numerical data Humans Length of Stay - statistics & numerical data Male Medicare - statistics & numerical data Patient Readmission - statistics & numerical data Treatment Outcome United States - epidemiology United States
ISSN:	1538-3598, 1538-3598
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