Despite advancements in TAVR, permanent pacemaker implantation rates remain high, linked to worse long-term outcomes such as increased mortality and heart failure hospitalizations.
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Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) has undergone remarkable refinement over the past decade, yet conduction disturbances (CDs) remain one of its most persistent and clinically consequential complications. Despite improvements in imaging-based preprocedural planning, implantation techniques, and device design, only a minority of contemporary series report permanent pacemaker implantation (PPI) rates in the single digits.1,2 This is not trivial, as PPI has been consistently associated with worse long-term outcomes, including higher mortality and heart failure hospitalizations.
Nuche et al. (Sun,) reported a other. Despite advancements in TAVR, permanent pacemaker implantation rates remain high, linked to worse long-term outcomes such as increased mortality and heart failure hospitalizations.