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The FRANCE-2 risk score provides a predictive model for mortality after TAVI based on a homogeneous population, overcoming limitations of previous surgical scores like EuroSCORE I and II.
The FRANCE-2 risk score provides a more rigorous predictive model for mortality after TAVI compared to older surgical scores.
To the Editor, The developers1 of the first rigorous predictive model for mortality after transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) have overcome the limitations of the previous surgical scores. While EuroSCORE I is an old and redundant model based on data of 1995 and derived from a highly heterogeneous patient group with different operations, techniques and demographics, this predictive model is based on new results of a remarkably homogeneous population (72.4% >80 years of age and all treated with TAVI procedures).1 Moreover, while EuroSCORE II developers included variables that were not significantly associated with the event by multivariate regression and did not analyse some important variables, …
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Díaz et al. (2014) conducted a letter in Mortality after transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI). FRANCE-2 risk score vs. EuroSCORE I and EuroSCORE II was evaluated on Mortality after TAVI. The FRANCE-2 risk score provides a predictive model for mortality after TAVI based on a homogeneous population, overcoming limitations of previous surgical scores like EuroSCORE I and II.
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