Racial and Ethnic Differences in Adoption of Mitral Valve Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Repair Over a Decade in the National Veterans Affairs Healthcare System

J Am Heart Assoc. 2024 Oct;13(19):e035767. doi: 10.1161/JAHA.124.035767. Epub 2024 Sep 30.

Authors

Balakrishnan Pillai¹, Tariku J Beyene², Guson Kang^{2

3}, Daniel Amponsah^{2

3}, Paul A Heidenreich^{2

3}, Celina M Yong^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ San Francisco Veterans Affairs Healthcare System San Francisco CA USA.
² Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Healthcare System Palo Alto CA USA.
³ Division of Cardiovascular Medicine and Cardiovascular Institute Stanford University Stanford CA USA.

PMID: 39344644
DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.124.035767

No abstract available

Keywords: delivery of health care; ethnicity; insurance coverage; mitral valve; mitral valve insufficiency; veterans.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Aged
Cardiac Catheterization*
Female
Healthcare Disparities / ethnology
Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation
Humans
Male
Mitral Valve / surgery
Mitral Valve Insufficiency* / ethnology
Mitral Valve Insufficiency* / surgery
United States / epidemiology
United States Department of Veterans Affairs*