The design of the PARTNER trial has been previously described.
21 (link), 22 (link) Briefly, it enrolled patients with severe aortic stenosis who were deemed to be either high risk for surgical AVR (cohort A) or non-surgical candidates (cohort B). Patients in cohort A were randomized to either SAVR or AVR by the transfemoral (TF) or transapical (TA) approach. Patients in cohort B with adequate femoral access were randomized to TF TAVR or standard medical therapy. After completion of the randomized trial enrollment, patients were enrolled in a continued access registry for either TA or TF TAVR. All patients who underwent TAVR had implantation of an
Edwards SAPIEN valve (Edwards Lifesciences, Irvine, CA, USA). The date of data extraction was February 2013.
Patients in the PARTNER Trial had ECG, echocardiogram, and clinical evaluation performed at baseline, discharge, 30 days, 6 months and 1 year post TAVR. Patients were included in this analysis only if they had undergone TAVR as part of either the randomized trial or the non-randomized continued access registry and had baseline and discharge ECGs available for analysis.
The study was approved by the Institutional Review Board at each participating site and all patients provided written informed consent.
Biviano A.B., Nazif T., Dizon J., Garan H., Fleitman J., Hassan D., Kapadia S., Babaliaros V., Xu K., Parvataneni R., Rodes-Cabau J., Szeto W.Y., Fearon W.F., Dvir D., Dewey T., Williams M., Mack M.J., Webb J.G., Miller D.C., Smith C.R., Leon M.B, & Kodali S. (2016). Atrial Fibrillation Is Associated With Increased Mortality in Patients Undergoing Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: Insights from the PARTNER Trial. Circulation. Cardiovascular interventions, 9(1), e002766.