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The combined safety and effectiveness endpoint as defined by the Valve Academic Research Consortium-3 (VARC-3)
Time frame: 1-year
It is the composite of following:
- All-cause mortality
- All stroke
- Bleeding (Type 3 and 4)
- AKI (Stage 2, 3 and 4)
- Major vascular complications
- Moderate or severe prosthetic valve regurgitation
- Conduction system disturbances resulting in a new PPI
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All-cause mortality
Time frame: Pre-discharge, 30-day, 6-month, 1-year, 2-year, 3-year, 4 year, 5-year, 7-year, and 10-year
As per VARC-3 defined criteria
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All stroke
Time frame: Pre-discharge, 30-day, 1-year, 3-year, and 5-year
As per VARC-3 defined criteria
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Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) (Stage 2, 3 and 4)
Time frame: Pre-discharge, 30-day, and 1-year
As per VARC-3 defined criteria
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Bleeding (Type 3 and 4)
Time frame: Pre-discharge, 30-day, 1-year, 3-year, and 5-year
As per VARC-3 defined criteria
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Moderate or severe prosthetic valve regurgitation
Time frame: Pre-discharge, 30-day, 1-year, 3-year, 5-year, 7-year, and 10-year
As per VARC-3 defined criteria
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New permanent pacemaker implantation (As per VARC-3 defined criteria)
Time frame: Pre-discharge, 30-day, 6-month, 1-year, 2-year, 3-year, 4-year, 5-year, 7-year, and 10-year
o New PPI rates will be analysed further based on the patient's history of left and/or right bundle branch block.
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Conduction disturbances and arrhythmias
Time frame: Pre-discharge, 30-day, 1-year, 3-year, and 5-year
As per VARC-3 defined criteria
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Device success
Time frame: Pre-discharge and 30-day
As per VARC-3 defined criteria
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Early safety at 30 days
Time frame: 30-day
As per VARC-3 defined criteria
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Clinical efficacy at 30 days
Time frame: After 30 days of index procedure
As per VARC-3 defined criteria
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Valve related long-term clinical efficacy
Time frame: 5-years, 7 years and 10 years
As per VARC-3 defined criteria
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Vascular and access related complications
Time frame: Pre-discharge, 30-day, and 1-year
As per VARC-3 defined criteria
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Major vascular complications
Time frame: Pre-discharge, 30-day, and 1-year
As per VARC-3 defined criteria
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Functional improvement from baseline as measured per
Time frame: [Time frame: Baseline (pre-procedure), 30-day, 1-year, 3-year, 5-year, 7-year, and 10-year], [Time frame: Baseline (pre-procedure), 30-day and 1-year]
New York Heart Association (NYHA) functional classification [Time frame: Baseline (pre-procedure), 30-day, 1-year, 3-year, 5-year, 7-year, and 10-year] Six-minute walk test [Time frame: Baseline (pre-procedure), 30-day and 1-year]
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Echocardiographic endpoints
Time frame: Baseline, pre-discharge, 30-day, 1-year, 3-year, 5-year, 7-year, and 10-year
- Effective orifice area (EOA)
- Index effective orifice area (iEOA)
- Mean aortic valve gradient
- Peak aortic valve gradient
- Peak aortic velocity
- Total aortic regurgitation, transvalvular regurgitation (except baseline) and paravalvular regurgitation (except baseline)
- Left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF)
- Valve calcification
- Cardiac output and cardiac index
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Bioprosthetic valve deterioration
Time frame: Pre-discharge, 30-day, 1-year, 3-year, and 5-year
As per VARC-3 defined criteria
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Patient-prosthesis mismatch
Time frame: Pre-discharge, 30-day, and 1-year
Severity patient-prosthesis-mismatch will be based on following
- For subjects with body mass index (BMI) <30 kg/m2, EOAi: 0.85 - 0.66 cm2 /m2 considered as moderate and ≤0.65 cm2 /m2 considered as severe
- For subjects with BMI ≥30 kg/m2, EOAi: 0.70 - 0.56 cm2 /m2 considered as moderate and ≤0.55 cm2 /m2 considered as severe
- BMI = weight(kg)/(height (m))2
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Length of index hospital stay
Time frame: At discharge
o Number of days from hospital admission to discharge.
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Re-hospitalization
Time frame: 30-day, 1-year, 3-year, and 5-year
As per VARC-3 defined criteria
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Health status as evaluated by Quality of Life questionnaires
Time frame: Baseline (pre-procedure), 30-day, and 1-year
o 12-Item Short Form Survey (SF-12)
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Valve thrombosis
Time frame: 30-day, 1-year, 3-year, and 5-year
o Valve thrombosis as per VARC-2 is any thrombus attached to or near an implanted valve that occludes part of the blood flow path, interferes with valve function, or is sufficiently large to warrant treatment. Note that valve-associated thrombus identified at autopsy in a patient whose cause of death was not valve-related should not be reported as valve thrombosis.
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Coronary obstruction requiring intervention
Time frame: Pre-discharge
As per VARC-3 defined criteria
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Valve malpositioning
Time frame: Pre-discharge
As per VARC-3 defined criteria
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Conversion to open surgery
Time frame: Pre-discharge
As per VARC-3 defined criteria
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Unplanned use of mechanical circulatory support (cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB), extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), transcatheter pumps or intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP)
Time frame: Pre-discharge
As per VARC-3 defined criteria
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Implantation of multiple (>1) transcatheter valves during the index hospitalization
Time frame: Index-procedure
As per VARC-3 defined criteria
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Cardiac structural complications
Time frame: 30 days, 6 months, 1 year, 2 years, 3 years, 4 years, 5 years
As per VARC-3 defined criteria
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Ventricular septal perforation
Time frame: Pre-discharge
o Angiographic or echocardiographic evidence of a new septal perforation during or after the TAVI procedure
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New onset of atrial fibrillation or atrial flutter
Time frame: Pre-discharge, 30-day, 1-year, 3-year, and 5-year
As per VARC-3 defined criteria
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Technical success
Time frame: Post-procedure
As per VARC-3 defined criteria
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Myocardial Infarction
Time frame: Pre-discharge, 30-day, 1-year, 3-year, and 5-year
As per VARC-3 defined criteria
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Endocarditis
Time frame: 30-day, 1-year, 3-year, and 5-year
As per VARC-3 defined criteria