Surgical Bailout During TAVR: A Contemporary Analysis of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Database.
BACKGROUND Surgical bailout during transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) may be necessary to manage emergent TAVR complications. With discussions of performing TAVR in U.S. hospitals without in-hospital cardiac surgery support, analysis of TAVR bailout on a national level is needed. OBJECTIVES This study soug...