Society of Thoracic Surgeons Score Variance Results in Risk Reclassification of Patients Undergoing Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement

JAMA Cardiol. 2017 Apr 1;2(4):455-456. doi: 10.1001/jamacardio.2016.4132.

Authors

Toby Rogers¹, Edward Koifman², Nirav Patel², Jiaxiang Gai², Rebecca Torguson², Paul Corso², Ron Waksman²

Affiliations

¹ MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC2Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Branch, Division of Intramural Research, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
² MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC.

Abstract

This study compares the Society of Thoracic Surgeons scores of patients in 2008/2009 with their recalculated 2015 scores.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Aortic Valve / surgery*
Aortic Valve Stenosis / surgery*
Humans
Patient Selection*
Risk Assessment / methods*
Societies, Medical*
Thoracic Surgery*
Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement / methods*
United States