Racial Minorities Less Likely to Undergo TAVR, NCDR Study Shows – American College of Cardiology
Racial minorities may be less likely than white patients to undergo TAVR in the U.S., but their in-hospital and one-year outcomes following TAVR are similar to those of white patients, according to a study published May 20 in JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions. Mohamad Alkhouli, MD, FACC, et al., used the STS/ACC TVT Registry to analyze records of 70,221 patients…