Valve Disease

Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement

Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: Volume and In-Hospital Mortality

2017 – 2021

Since the start of the transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) program in 2006, Cleveland Clinic consistently achieves better-than-expected outcomes.

The in-hospital mortality rates for patients who had TAVR at Cleveland Clinic remain lower than the expected rate. Calculated observed to expected ratios remain less than the value of 1 indicating that Cleveland Clinic mortality is better than expected in these procedures.

YearO:E (observed to expected mortality ratio)
20170.1
20180.1
20190.0
20200.1
20210.6

Source: Data from the Vizient Clinical Data Base used with permission of Vizient, Inc. All rights reserved.
Source for mortality rates and volume: Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) National Adult Cardiac Surgery Database.

Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: Volume by Approach

2021, N = 652

The majority of transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedures done at Cleveland Clinic involve a transfemoral approach. This approach was used in 96% of the 652 TAVR procedures performed in 2021.

Source: Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) National Adult Cardiac Surgery Database

The total TAVR procedures reported were done by a team of cardiothoracic surgeons and interventional cardiologists.