This review highlights the multifactorial causes of racial disparities in TAVR access and proposes practical solutions to improve equity in structural heart disease care.
Raises clinician awareness of TAVR access barriers; leaves open validation of equity interventions in structural heart disease.
Racial disparities in transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) implantation results from several factors, including socioeconomic disparities, inherent biases in healthcare provision, fewer referrals to specialists and language barriers in some minority populations. In this review article, we discuss the current data on the racial disparities in TAVR, explore the prevalence of aortic stenosis in different demographics in the United States and we proffer practical solutions to these problems.
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Bob‐Manuel et al. (2018) studied this question.