@article{JTD25306,
author = {Asmae Gassa and Jan H. Borghardt and Johanna Maier and Kathrin Kuhr and Maximilian Michel and Svenja Ney and Kaveh Eghbalzadeh and Anton Sabashnikov and Tanja Rudolph and Stephan Baldus and Navid Mader and Thorsten Wahlers},
title = {Effect of preoperative low serum albumin on postoperative complications and early mortality in patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement},
journal = {Journal of Thoracic Disease},
volume = {10},
number = {12},
year = {2018},
keywords = {},
abstract = {Background: Patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) are mostly elderly patients with substantial comorbidities. Established risk scores are not validated for TAVR and collectives with elderly patients making periprocedural risk stratification difficult. Serum albumin is known to be an indicator for malnutrition and frailty and is simple to measure, independent of physician’s bias. Using serum albumin as a preoperative marker for postoperative complications might help estimating morbidity and mortality of these patients.
Methods: A total of 457 patients with severe symptomatic aortic stenosis undergoing TAVR at our institution in a period from January 2014 to December 2015 were included in this retrospective study. Baseline characteristics as well as preoperative laboratory parameters were registered. Postoperative morbidity and 30-day mortality were analyzed as primary end points. Enrolled patients with preoperative low serum albumin (},
issn = {2077-6624}, url = {https://jtd.amegroups.org/article/view/25306}
}