Lifetime management of aortic stenosis: a strategy, or a euphemism?

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Study design: Editorial. Population: Aortic stenosis. Intervention: Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) vs. Surgical aortic valve replacement.

Pradeep Narayan

doi:10.1007/s12055-026-02294-6

October 20, 2026Indian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular SurgeryOpen Access

Lifetime management of aortic stenosis: a strategy, or a euphemism?

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Relying on reintervention to justify initial TAVI obscures lifetime valve failure risks.

Key Points

To evaluate whether current lifetime management strategies in aortic stenosis genuinely optimize lifelong patient care or merely reframe early prosthetic valve failure as a planned milestone.
Narrative clinical review and editorial critique analyzing published registry data, national surgical databases, and procedural simulation studies.
Assessed mortality, reoperation complexity, and coronary access constraints following surgical and transcatheter aortic valve reinterventions.
In a propensity-matched analysis of isolated redo replacements (433 patients matched in each arm), operative mortality was 11.3% after a prior transcatheter valve compared with 6.7% after a prior surgical valve.
Data from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons database showed an aortic root or annular procedure was required in 28.8% of surgical explantations after transcatheter valve failure.
Computed tomography simulations demonstrated sinus sequestration and loss of coronary access in 13% to 61% of redo transcatheter implantations within self-expanding valves.

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Aortic stenosis

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Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) vs Surgical aortic valve replacement

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Reintervention should not justify initial TAVI; leaves open whether current lifetime strategies truly optimize long-term outcomes or compound risk.

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Pradeep Narayan (2026) conducted an editorial in Aortic stenosis. Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) vs. Surgical aortic valve replacement was evaluated. Treating the possibility of reintervention as justification for initial transcatheter aortic valve implantation does not constitute a true lifetime strategy and obscures the risks of valve failure.

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