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Impact of Prosthesis-Patient Mismatch on 1-Year Outcomes after Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation: Meta-analysis of 71,106 Patients

Abstract

Objectives:

This study sought to evaluate the impact of prosthesis-patient mismatch (PPM) on the risk of early-term mortality after transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI).

Methods:

Databases (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online [MEDLINE], Excerpta Medica dataBASE [EMBASE], Cochrane Controlled Trials Register [CENTRAL/CCTR], ClinicalTrials.gov, Scientific Electronic Library Online [SciELO], Latin American and Caribbean Literature on Health Sciences [LILACS], and Google Scholar) were searched for studies published until February 2019. PPM after TAVI was defined as moderate if the indexed effective orifice area (iEOA) was between 0.85 cm2/m2 and 0.65 cm2/m2 and as severe if iEOA ≤ 0.65 cm2/m2.

Results:

The search yielded 1,092 studies for inclusion. Of these, 18 articles were analyzed, and their data extracted. The total number of patients included who underwent TAVI was 71,106. The incidence of PPM after TAVI was 36.3% (25,846 with PPM and 45,260 without PPM). One-year mortality was not increased in patients with any PPM (odds ratio [OR] 1.021, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.979-1.065, P=0.338) neither in those with moderate PPM (OR 0.980, 95% CI 0.933-1.029, P=0.423). Severe PPM was separately associated with high risk (OR 1.109, 95% CI 1.041-1.181, P=0.001).

Conclusion:

The presence of severe PPM after TAVI increased early-term mortality. Although moderate PPM seemed harmless, the findings of this study cannot not rule out the possibility of it being detrimental, since there are other registries that did not address this issue yet.

Keywords:
Aortic Stenosis; Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement; Heart Valve Prosthesis; Meta-Analysis; Prosthesis-Patient Mismatch

Abbreviations, acronyms & symbols ARE = Aortic root enlargement MEDLINE = Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online AVR = Aortic valve replacement BSA = Body surface area OR = Odds ratio CENTRAL/CCTR = Cochrane Controlled Trials Register PICO = Patient, intervention, comparison, outcome CI = Confidence interval PPM = Prosthesis-patient mismatch EMBASE = Excerpta Medica dataBASE PRISMA = Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses EOA = Effective orifice area SAVR = Surgical aortic valve replacement iEOA = Indexed effective orifice area SciELO = Scientific Electronic Library Online LILACS = Latin American and Caribbean Literature on Health Sciences TAVI = Transcatheter aortic valve implantation

INTRODUCTION

Rationale

The idea of prosthesis-patient mismatch (PPM), firstly proposed by Rahimtoola et al.[11 Rahimtoola SH. The problem of valve prosthesis-patient mismatch. Circulation. 1978 Jul;58(1):20-4.] and reintroduced by Pibarot et al.[22 Pibarot P, Dumesnil JG. Hemodynamic and clinical impact of prosthesis-patient mismatch in the aortic valve position and its prevention. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2000;36:1131-41.], provided the logical framework to select the proper prosthesis with the data of the indexed effective orifice area (iEOA), derived from the effective orifice area (EOA) of the prosthesis and the patient’s body surface area (BSA). Pibarot et al.[33 Pibarot P, Clavel MA. Prosthesis-Patient Mismatch After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: It Is Neither Rare Nor Benign. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2018;72(22):2712-6. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2018.09.045.
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] has proposed avoiding an iEOA lower than 0.85 cm2/m2 to prevent PPM, since the consequence of using prostheses with a small EOA relative to the BSA would be the obstruction of the outflow of the left ventricle, which would not favour the reverse remodeling of the hypertrophied left ventricle.

Our group published recently a meta-analysis[44 Sá MPBO, Carvalho MMB, Sobral Filho DC, Cavalcanti LRP, Rayol SDC, Diniz RGS, Menezes AM, Clavel MA, Pibarot P, Lima RC. Surgical aortic valve replacement and patient-prosthesis mismatch: a meta-analysis of 108 182 patients. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2019 [Epub ahead of print]. doi: 10.1093/ejcts/ezy466.
https://doi.org/10.1093/ejcts/ezy466...
] in order to evaluate the impact of PPM on the risk of perioperative, early-, mid-, and long-term mortality rates after surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR), showing increases in mortality of 49%, 46%, 36%, and 53%, respectively.

This time, we aimed to address the same issue in the scenario of PPM after transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI).

Objectives

We aimed to investigate whether PPM increases the risk for death after TAVI. This analysis was planned in accordance with current guidelines for performing comprehensive systematic reviews and meta-analysis, including the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA)[55 Moher D, Liberati A, Tetzlaff J, Altman DG, for the PRISMA Group. Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and metaanalyses: the PRISMA statement. Ann Intern Med. 2009;151:264-9.] guidelines.

METHODS

Eligibility Criteria

With the patient, intervention, comparison, outcome (PICO) strategy, studies were considered if: 1) the population comprised patients who underwent TAVI; 2) there was a group of patients who developed moderate PPM (with iEOA between 0.85 cm2/m2 and 0.65 cm2/m2) or severe PPM (iEOA ≤ 0.65 cm2/m2) after TAVI; 3) there was a control group of patients with non-significant/no PPM (iEOA > 0.85 cm2/m2); 4) outcomes included 1-year mortality rates; and 5) studies were retrospective, prospective, randomized, or non-randomized.

Information Sources

The following databases were used (until February 2019): Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online (MEDLINE), Excerpta Medica dataBASE (EMBASE), Cochrane Controlled Trials Register (CENTRAL/CCTR), ClinicalTrials.gov, Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO), Latin American and Caribbean Literature on Health Sciences (LILACS), Google Scholar, and reference lists of relevant articles.

Search

We conducted the search with the following terms: "mismatch OR PPM OR patient-prosthesis mismatch OR prosthesis-patient mismatch" AND "AVR OR aortic valve replacement" AND “percutaneous OR transcatheter OR transluminal OR transarterial OR transapical OR transaortic OR transcarotid OR transsubclavian OR transaxillary OR transiliac OR transfemoral”.

Study Selection

The following steps were taken: 1) identification of titles of records through databases searching; 2) removal of duplicates; 3) screening and selection of abstracts; 4) assessment for eligibility through full-text articles; and 5) final inclusion in study. One reviewer followed steps 1 to 3. Two independent reviewers followed the step 4 and selected the studies. Inclusion or exclusion of studies was decided unanimously. When there was disagreement, a third reviewer made the final decision.

Data Items

The crude end points were 1-year mortality rates.

Data Collection Process

Two independent reviewers extracted the data. When there was disagreement about the data, a third reviewer checked them and made the final decision. From each study, we extracted patient’s characteristics, study design, and outcomes. When the data were not clearly available in the articles, we contacted the authors of the original articles by e-mail.

Summary Measures

The principal summary measures were odds ratio (OR) with 95% confidence interval (CI) and P-values (considered statistically significant when P<0.05) for death. The meta-analysis was completed with the software Comprehensive Meta-Analysis (version 2, Biostat, Inc., Englewood, New Jersey).

Synthesis of Results

Forest plots were generated for graphical presentations of clinical outcomes, and we performed the I2 test and χ2 test for the assessment of heterogeneity across the studies[33 Pibarot P, Clavel MA. Prosthesis-Patient Mismatch After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: It Is Neither Rare Nor Benign. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2018;72(22):2712-6. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2018.09.045.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2018.09.0...
]. Inter-study heterogeneity was explored using the χ2 statistic, but the I2-value was calculated to quantify the degree of heterogeneity across the studies that could not be attributable to chance alone. When I2 was more than 50%, significant statistical heterogeneity was considered to be present. Each study was summarized by the OR, whose values were combined across studies using a weighted DerSimonian-Laird random effects model[77 DerSimonian R, Kacker R. Random-effects model for meta-analysis of clinical trials: an update. Contemp Clin Trials. 2007;28:105-14.].

Risk of Bias Across Studies

To assess publication bias, a funnel plot was generated for each outcome, statistically assessed by Begg and Mazumdar’s test[88 Begg CB, Mazumdar M. Operating characteristics of a rank correlation test for publication bias. Biometrics. 1994;50:1088-101.] and Egger’s test[99 Egger M, Davey Smith G, Schneider M, Minder C. Bias in metaanalysis detected by a simple, graphical test. BMJ. 1997;315:629-34.].

Sensitivity Analysis

We analyzed the pool data regarding the outcomes according to PPM severity (moderate or severe). We also investigated the influence of each study on the overall effect - by sequentially removing one study - in order to test the robustness of the main results, so that we could verify whether any study had an excessive influence on the overall results.

RESULTS

Study Selection

A total of 1,092 citations were identified, of which 116 studies were potentially relevant and retrieved as full-text. Seventeen publications[1010 Léon del Pino MC, Ruíz Ortiz M, Delgado Ortega M, Sánchez Fernández J, Ferreiro Quero C. Prosthesis-patient mismatch after transcatheter aortic valve replacement: prevalence and medium term prognostic impact. Int J Cardiovasc Imaging. 2019;35(01):1-206. doi: 10.1007/s10554-018-01519-z.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10554-018-01519...

11 Lavagna F, Deharo P, Grisoli D, Gaubert G, Jaussaud N. Prosthesis patient mismatch is an independent predictor of congestive heart failure after transcatheter aortic valve replacement. Arch Cardiovasc Dis Suppl. 2019;11(01):65-6. doi:10.1016/j.acvdsp.2018.10.142.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acvdsp.2018.10...

12 Bleiziffer S, Erlebach M, Simonato M, Pibarot P, Webb J. Incidence, predictors and clinical outcomes of residual stenosis after aortic valve-in-valve. Heart. 2018;104(10):828-34. doi:10.1136/heartjnl-2017-312422.
https://doi.org/10.1136/heartjnl-2017-31...

13 Herrmann H, Daneshvar S, Fonarow G, Stebbins A, Vemulapall S. Prosthesis-Patient Mismatch in 62,125 Patients Following Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2018;72(22):2701-11. doi:10.1016/j.jacc.2018.09.001.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2018.09.0...

14 Seoudy H, Güßefeld N, Frank J, Freitag-wolf S, Lutter G. Incidence and impact of prosthesis-patient mismatch following transcatheter aortic valve implantation. Clin Res Cardiol. 2018;107(11):987-1086. doi:10.1007/s00392-018-1394-0.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00392-018-1394-...

15 Schofer N, Deuschl F, Rübsamen N, Skibowski J, Seiffert M. Prosthesis-Patient Mismatch after Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation: Prevalence and Prognostic Impact under Consideration of Baseline Left Ventricular Function. EuroIntervention. 2018;JAA(484). doi:10.4244/EIJ-D-18-00827.
https://doi.org/10.4244/EIJ-D-18-00827...

16 Miyasaka M, Tada N, Taguri M, Kato S, Enta Y. Incidence, Predictors, and Clinical Impact of Prosthesis-Patient Mismatch Following Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement in Asian Patients: The OCEAN-TAVI Registry. JACC Cardiovasc Interv. 2018;11(08):771-80. doi:10.1016/j.jcin.2018.01.273.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcin.2018.01.2...

17 Zbronski K, Rymuza B, Scislo P, Grodecki K, Dobkowska P. Patient-prosthesis mismatch in patients treated with transcatheter aortic valve implantation - predictors, incidence and impact on clinical efficacy A preliminary study. Advances in Interventional Cardiology. 2017;13(04 (50)):281-7. doi:10.5114/aic.2017.71608.
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18 Mooney J, Sellers SL, Blanke P, Pibarot P, Hahn RT, et al. CT-Defined Prosthesis-Patient Mismatch Downgrades Frequency and Severity, and Demonstrates No Association With Adverse Outcomes After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement. JACC Cardiovasc Interv. 2017;10(15):1578-87. doi:10.1016/j.jcin.2017.05.031.
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19 Zorn GL 3rd, Little SH, Tadros P, Deeb GM, Gleason TG, Heiser J, Kleiman NS, Oh JK, Popma JJ, Adams D, Huang J, Reardon MJ. Prosthesis-patient mismatch in high-risk patients with severe aortic stenosis: A randomized trial of a self-expanding prosthesis. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2016;151(4):1014-22. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2015.10.070.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtcvs.2015.10....

20 Poulin F, Yingchoncharoen T, Wilson WM, Horlick EM, Généreux P. Impact of Prosthesis-Patient Mismatch on Left Ventricular Myocardial Mechanics After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement. J Am Heart Assoc. 2016;05(02). doi:10.1161/JAHA.115.002866.
https://doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.115.002866...

21 Thyregod HGH, Steinbrüchel DA, Ihlemannb N, Ngo TA, Nissen H. No clinical effect of prosthesis-patient mismatch after transcatheter versus surgical aortic valve replacement in intermediate- and low-risk patients with severe aortic valve stenosis at mid-term follow-up: an analysis of the NOTION trial. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2016;50(04):721-8. doi:10.1093/ejcts/ezw095.
https://doi.org/10.1093/ejcts/ezw095...

22 Pibarot P, Weissman NJ, Stewart WJ, Hahn RT, Lindman BR. Incidence and Sequelae of Prosthesis-Patient Mismatch in Transcatheter Versus Surgical Valve Replacement in High-Risk Patients With Severe Aortic Stenosis. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2014;64(13):1323-34. doi:10.1016/j.jacc.2014.06.1195.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2014.06.1...

23 Muñoz-García AJ, Muñoz-García M, Carrasco-Chinchilla F, et al. Incidence and clinical outcome of prosthesis-patient mismatch after transcatheter aortic valve implantation with the CoreValve prosthesis. Int J Cardiol. 2013;167:1074-6.

24 Kukucka M, Pasic M, Dreysse S, et al. Patient-prosthesis mismatch after transapical aortic valve implantation: incidence and impact on survival. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2013;145:391-7.

25 Van Linden A, Kempfert J, Blumenstein J, et al. Prosthesis-patient mismatch after transcatheter aortic valve implantation using the Edwards SAPIEN prosthesis. Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2013;61:414-20.
-2626 Ewe SH, Muratori M, Delgado V, et al. Hemodynamic and clinical impact of prosthesis-patient mismatch after transcatheter aortic valve implantation. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2011;58:1910-8.] fulfilled our eligibility criteria. Interobserver reliability of study relevance was excellent (Kappa=0.85). Agreement for decisions related to study validity was very good (Kappa=0.86). The search strategy can be seen in Figure 1.

Fig. 1
Flow diagram of studies included in data search.

CENTRAL/CCTR=Cochrane Controlled Trials Register; EMBASE=Excerpta Medica dataBASE; LILACS=Latin American and Caribbean Literature on Health Sciences; MEDLINE=Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online; PPM=prosthesis-patient mismatch; SAVR=surgical aortic valve replacement; SciELO=Scientific Electronic Library Online; TAVI=transcatheter aortic valve implantation


Study Characteristics

A total of 71,106 patients (moderate/severe PPM: 25,466 patients; non-significant/no PPM: 45,260 patients) were included from studies published from 2011 to 2019. The incidence of moderate/severe PPM after TAVI was 36.3% (moderate PPM: 24.5%; severe PPM: 11.8%). There were studies mostly from North America and Europe; none from Latin America. Most of the studies were observational (n=15, 83.3%), but all of the observational studies had some multivariate adjustment for possible confounders. All of the studies measured iEOA directly in each patient by Doppler echocardiography following TAVI. One-year mortality ranged in the studies from 1.9% to 19.5%.

Synthesis of Results (Looking into Moderate and Severe PPM as a Whole)

The OR for 1-year mortality in the “any PPM” group compared with the “non-significant/no PPM” group in each study is reported in Figure 2. There was evidence of low heterogeneity of treatment effect among the studies for 1-year mortality. The overall OR (95% CI) of 1-year mortality showed no statistically significant difference between the groups (random effect model: OR 1.021, 95% CI 0.979-1.065, P=0.338).

Fig. 2
Odds ratio and conclusions plot of 1-year mortality for any prosthesis-patient mismatch (PPM). This figure shows the summary effect of no/any PPM on 1-year mortality.

CI=confidence interval


Sensitivity Analysis (Looking into Moderate and Severe PPM Separately)

The OR for 1-year mortality in the “moderate PPM” group compared with the “non-significant/no PPM” group in each study is reported in Figure 3. There was evidence of low statistical heterogeneity of treatment effect among the studies for 1-year mortality. The overall OR (95% CI) of 1-year mortality showed no statistically significant difference between the groups (random effect model: OR 0.980, 95% CI 0.933-1.029, P=0.423).

Fig. 3
Odds ratio and conclusions plot of 1-year mortality for moderate prosthesis-patient mismatch (PPM). This figure shows the summary effect of no versus moderate PPM on 1-year mortality.

CI=confidence interval


The OR for 1-year mortality in the “severe PPM” group compared with the “non-significant/no PPM” group in each study is reported in Figure 4. There was evidence of high statistical heterogeneity of treatment effect among the studies for perioperative mortality. The overall OR (95% CI) of 1-year mortality showed a statistically significant difference between the groups, with higher risk in the “severe PPM” group (random effect model: OR 1.109, 95% CI 1.041-1.181, P=0.001) than in the “non-significant/no PPM” group.

Fig. 4
Odds ratio and conclusions plot of 1-year mortality for severe prosthesis-patient mismatch (PPM). This figure shows the summary effect of no versus severe PPM on 1-year mortality.

CI=confidence interval


Sensitivity analyses performed by removing each single study from the meta-analysis to determine the influence of individual data sets to the pooled ORs showed that none of the studies had a particular impact on the results.

Risk of Bias Across Studies

Funnel plot analysis (Figure 5) disclosed no asymmetry around the axis for the outcomes, which means that we have low risk of publication bias related to these.

Fig. 5
Publication bias. Funnel plot analysis of the outcomes. PPM=prosthesis-patient mismatch.

DISCUSSION

Summary of Evidence

To our knowledge, this is the largest meta-analysis of studies performed to date that provides additional value by demonstrating that patients with severe PPM have higher risk for 1-year mortality than those with non-significant/no PPM. We also observed that more than one third of the patients leave the operation room with significant PPM, having this aspect a negative impact. Moreover, mortality rates increased only with severe PPM, being moderate PPM not as harmful as severe PPM in terms of mortality rates.

PPM after TAVI - a Playground (for Problems) that Must Not Be Neglected and Should Be Avoided

These results have important clinical implications given that PPM is a potentially modifiable risk factor. Dayan et al.[2727 Dayan V, Vignolo G, Soca G, Paganini JJ, Brusich D, Pibarot P. Predictors and Outcomes of Prosthesis-Patient Mismatch After Aortic Valve Replacement. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2016;9(8):924-33. doi: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2015.10.026.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcmg.2015.10.0...
] explains the association of PPM and increase of mortality by the fact that the left ventricle function would be highly vulnerable to any residual afterload, which sometimes means poor regression of the left ventricle hypertrophy and poor improvement of symptoms.

The first step to avoid PPM after TAVI would be to predict the risk of PPM before the procedure. This can be achieved by calculating the predicted iEOA using the normal EOA for the anticipated model of transcatheter valve and the patient’s aortic annulus size, as suggested by Hahn et al.[2828 Hahn RT, Leipsic J, Douglas PS, Aber WA, Weissman NJ5, Pibarot P, Blanke P, Oh JK. Comprehensive Echocardiographic Assessment of Normal Transcatheter Valve Function. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2019;12(1):25-34. doi: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2018.04.010.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcmg.2018.04.0...
] As suggested by Pibarot and Clavel[33 Pibarot P, Clavel MA. Prosthesis-Patient Mismatch After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: It Is Neither Rare Nor Benign. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2018;72(22):2712-6. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2018.09.045.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2018.09.0...
], if a risk of severe PPM is anticipated on the basis of the predicted iEOA, several strategies may be considered to prevent PPM, including: 1) overexpansion of the initially selected transcatheter valve; 2) selecting another type of transcatheter valve with larger EOA; or 3) fracturing the stent of the failed bioprosthesis in case of valve-in-valve procedure.

Surgeons must weigh up risks and benefits of these strategies, which is not yet well established and will have to be validated in future studies. Importantly, the prevention of PPM should not be achieved at the cost of more paravalvular regurgitation or lesser valve durability. For a given degree of severity, paravalvular regurgitation indeed has a greater impact than PPM on clinical outcomes. Pibarot and Clavel[33 Pibarot P, Clavel MA. Prosthesis-Patient Mismatch After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: It Is Neither Rare Nor Benign. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2018;72(22):2712-6. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2018.09.045.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2018.09.0...
] suggest that this might be explained by the fact that patients undergoing TAVI generally have severe aortic stenosis and their left ventricle is, therefore, adapted to pressure overload, but not to volume overload.

SAVR with Aortic Root Enlargement (ARE) as an Option to Avoid Predicted PPM after TAVI

Haunschild et al.[2929 Haunschild J, Scharnowski S, Mende M, von Aspern K, Misfeld M, Mohr F-W et al. Aortic root enlargement to mitigate patient-prosthesis mismatch: do early adverse events justify reluctance? Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2019; doi:10.1093/ejcts/ezz016.
https://doi.org/10.1093/ejcts/ezz016...
] performed a single-centre, retrospective, propensity-matched analysis of 4,120 patients receiving isolated aortic valve replacement (AVR), of whom 171 (4%) had concomitant ARE, between January 2005 and December 2015, in order to avoid PPM. Early mortality was not statistically significantly different, with 1.4% in the SAVR group and 1.8% in the ARE group. The authors concluded that ARE can be performed safely in experienced centres with no significant increase in the risk of early postoperative surgical complications and early mortality.

Sá et al.[3030 Sá MPBO, Carvalho MMB, Sobral Filho DC, Cavalcanti LRP, Diniz RGS, Rayol SC et al. Impact of surgical aortic root enlargement on the outcomes of aortic valve replacement: a meta-analysis of 13 174 patients. Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg. 2019; doi:10.1093/icvts/ivy364.
https://doi.org/10.1093/icvts/ivy364...
] carried out a meta-analytical study to evaluate the impact of surgical ARE on the perioperative outcomes of SAVR with 10 studies published from 2002 to 2018 and a total of 13,174 patients (SAVR with ARE: 2,819 patients; SAVR without ARE: 10,355 patients). The total rate of ARE was 21.4%, varying in the studies from 5.7% to 26.3%. The OR for perioperative mortality showed a statistically significant difference between the groups, with a higher risk in the “SAVR with ARE” group (OR 1.506, 95% CI 1.209-1.875, P<0.001) than in the “SAVR without ARE” group, but not when adjusted for isolated SAVR + ARE without any concomitant procedures, such as mitral valve surgery, coronary artery bypass surgery, etc. (OR 1.625, 95% CI 0.968-2.726, P=0.066). The “SAVR with ARE” group showed an overall lower risk of significant PPM (OR 0.472, 95% CI 0.295-0.756, P=0.002) and a higher overall difference in means of iEOA than the “SAVR without ARE” group.

Sutureless Valves as Another Option to Avoid Predicted PPM after TAVI

Usual aortic valve prostheses narrow the EOA due to their suturing ring. Sutureless valve prostheses, on the other hand, are stentless and offer the advantage of a larger EOA, hence low rates of PPM. Beckmann et al.[3131 Beckmann E, Martens A, Alhadi F, Hoeffler K, Umminger J, Kaufeld T et al. Aortic valve replacement with sutureless prosthesis: better than root enlargement to avoid patient-prosthesis mismatch? Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg. 2016;22:744-9] carried out a study with 128 patients to compare the perioperative and mid-term outcomes of patients undergoing surgery for aortic valve stenosis with a small annulus that received either conventional AVR with ARE (36 patients) or implantation of a sutureless valve (92 patients). Albeit comprised of older patients, the group that received sutureless valves had a 30-day mortality and survival rates comparable to those of the other group.

Risk of Bias and Limitations

There are inherent limitations with meta-analyses, including the use of cumulative data from summary estimates. Patient data were gathered from published data, not from individual patient follow-up. Access to individual patient data would have enabled us to conduct further subgroup analysis and propensity analysis to account for differences between the treatment groups. This meta-analysis included data from studies that reflect the “real world” but, on the other hand, are less limited by publication bias, treatment bias, confounders, and a certain tendency to overestimate treatment effects observed in the observational studies, since patient selection alters the outcome, and thus makes non-randomized studies less robust.

Moreover, considerable statistical heterogeneity was observed in one of the analyses, but we used the random-effects model to counterbalance this aspect. We must remind the readers of the fact that research with statistically significant results is more likely to be submitted to medical journals and published than work with null or non-significant results, being the former also more likely to appear more prominently in English, in high-impact journals. All of the aforementioned aspects lead to the appearance of publication biases, but, in this case, we cannot state that the impact of severe PPM on mortality rates observed in our study is due to bias, since we observed low risk of bias in the analyses.

CONCLUSION

This meta-analysis found out that severe PPM is associated with a significant increase in 1-year mortality rates after TAVI.

Authors’ roles & responsibilities MPBOS Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; final approval of the version to be published. LRPC Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; final approval of the version to be published. FASS Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; final approval of the version to be published. AMP Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; final approval of the version to be published. SCR Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; final approval of the version to be published. RGSD Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; final approval of the version to be published. FBCAS Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; final approval of the version to be published. AMM Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; final approval of the version to be published. RCL Final approval of the version to be published.
  • No financial support.
  • This study was carried out at the - Pronto-Socorro Cardiológico Universitário de Pernambuco (PROCAPE), Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Recife, PE, Brazil.

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Publication Dates

  • Publication in this collection
    22 July 2019
  • Date of issue
    May-Jun 2019

History

  • Received
    24 Feb 2019
  • Accepted
    27 Apr 2019
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