April 19, 2021
Observational data from Switzerland add support to the idea that age shouldn’t be a barrier to TAVI, researchers say. While nonagenarian patients in the SwissTAVI Registry had a higher mortality risk compared with younger TAVI patients, these individuals were no more likely to die than people of similar age in the general population.
The question of how well the very elderly fare after TAVI is of increasing importance as the global population ages. By 2050, there will be around 76.7 million people older than 90 years, many of whom will develop aortic stenosis and face the choice of whether to undergo an invasive procedure.