Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Global TAVR Activity: The COVID-TAVI Study

Xavier Armario; Jennifer Carron; Andrew J Simpkin; Mohamed Elhadi; Ciara Kennedy; Mohamed Abdel-Wahab; Sabine Bleiziffer; Thierry Lefèvre; Alexander Wolf; Thomas Pilgrim; Pedro A Villablanca; Daniel J Blackman; Nicolas M Van Mieghem; Christian Hengstenberg; Martin J Swaans; Bernard D Prendergast; Tiffany Patterson; Marco Barbanti; John G Webb; Miles Behan; Jon Resar; Mao Chen; David Hildick-Smith; Mark S Spence; David Zweiker; Rodrigo Bagur; Rui Teles; Flavio L Ribichini; Dariusz Jagielak; Duk-Woo Park; Ran Kornowski; Joanna J Wykrzykowska; Matjaz Bunc; Rodrigo Estévez-Loureiro; Karl Poon; Matthias Götberg; Raban V Jeger; Hüseyin Ince; Erik J S Packer; Marco Angelillis; Luis Nombela-Franco; Yingqiang Guo; Mikko Savontaus; Abdulrahman M Al-Moghairi; Catalina Andreea Parasca; Chad Kliger; David Roy; Levente Molnár; Mariana Silva; Jonathon White; Masanori Yamamoto; Pedro Carrilho-Ferreira; Stefan Toggweiler; Vassileios Voudris; Yohei Ohno; Inês Rodrigues; Radosław Parma; Soledad Ojeda; Kostas Toutouzas; Ander Regueiro; Marek Grygier; Khaled AlMerri; Ignacio Cruz-González; Viliam Fridrich; José M de la Torre Hernández; Stephane Noble; Petr Kala; Lluis Asmarats; Ibrahim Halil Kurt; Johan Bosmans; Martins Erglis; Ivan Casserly; Dounia Iskandarani; Ravinay Bhindi; Joelle Kefer; Wei-Hsian Yin; Liesbeth Rosseel; Hyo-Soo Kim; Stephen O'Connor; Farrel Hellig; Matias Sztejfman; Oscar Mendiz; Andres M Pineda; Ashok Seth; Elton Pllaha; Fabio S de Brito; Vilhelmas Bajoras; Mohammed A Balghith; Michael Lee; Guering Eid-Lidt; Bert Vandeloo; Vinicius Daher Vaz; Mirvat Alasnag; Gian Paolo Ussia; Edgar Tay; Jorge Mayol; Sengottuvelu Gunasekaran; Gennaro Sardella; Wacin Buddhari; Hsien-Li Kao; Antonio Dager; Apostolos Tzikas; Ingibjörg J Gudmundsdottir; Ahmad Edris; Luis Abel Gutiérrez Jaikel; Eduardo A Arias; Mohammed Al-Hijji; Mehmet Ertürk; César Conde-Vela; Darko Boljević; Adolfo Ferrero Guadagnoli; Toomas Hermlin; Ahmed M ElGuindy; Moysés de Oliveira Lima-Filho; Luciano de Moura Santos; Luis Perez; Gabriel Maluenda; Ali Rıza Akyüz; Imad A Alhaddad; Haitham Amin; Chak-Yu So; Arif A Al Nooryani; Carlos Vaca; Juan Albistur; Quang Ngoc Nguyen; Dabit Arzamendi; Eberhard Grube; Thomas Modine; Didier Tchétché; Kentaro Hayashida; Azeem Latib; Raj R Makkar; Nicolo Piazza; Lars Søndergaard; John William McEvoy; Darren Mylotte

doi:10.1016/j.jcin.2023.10.041

Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Global TAVR Activity: The COVID-TAVI Study

Xavier Armario, Jennifer Carron, Andrew J Simpkin, Mohamed Elhadi, Ciara Kennedy, Mohamed Abdel-Wahab, Sabine Bleiziffer, Thierry Lefèvre, Alexander Wolf, Thomas Pilgrim, Pedro A Villablanca, Daniel J Blackman, Nicolas M Van Mieghem, Christian Hengstenberg, Martin J Swaans, Bernard D Prendergast, Tiffany Patterson, Marco Barbanti, John G Webb, Miles BehanJon Resar, Mao Chen, David Hildick-Smith, Mark S Spence, David Zweiker, Rodrigo Bagur, Rui Teles, Flavio L Ribichini, Dariusz Jagielak, Duk-Woo Park, Ran Kornowski, Joanna J Wykrzykowska, Matjaz Bunc, Rodrigo Estévez-Loureiro, Karl Poon, Matthias Götberg, Raban V Jeger, Hüseyin Ince, Erik J S Packer, Marco Angelillis, Luis Nombela-Franco, Yingqiang Guo, Mikko Savontaus, Abdulrahman M Al-Moghairi, Catalina Andreea Parasca, Chad Kliger, David Roy, Levente Molnár, Mariana Silva, Jonathon White, Masanori Yamamoto, Pedro Carrilho-Ferreira, Stefan Toggweiler, Vassileios Voudris, Yohei Ohno, Inês Rodrigues, Radosław Parma, Soledad Ojeda, Kostas Toutouzas, Ander Regueiro, Marek Grygier, Khaled AlMerri, Ignacio Cruz-González, Viliam Fridrich, José M de la Torre Hernández, Stephane Noble, Petr Kala, Lluis Asmarats, Ibrahim Halil Kurt, Johan Bosmans, Martins Erglis, Ivan Casserly, Dounia Iskandarani, Ravinay Bhindi, Joelle Kefer, Wei-Hsian Yin, Liesbeth Rosseel, Hyo-Soo Kim, Stephen O'Connor, Farrel Hellig, Matias Sztejfman, Oscar Mendiz, Andres M Pineda, Ashok Seth, Elton Pllaha, Fabio S de Brito, Vilhelmas Bajoras, Mohammed A Balghith, Michael Lee, Guering Eid-Lidt, Bert Vandeloo, Vinicius Daher Vaz, Mirvat Alasnag, Gian Paolo Ussia, Edgar Tay, Jorge Mayol, Sengottuvelu Gunasekaran, Gennaro Sardella, Wacin Buddhari, Hsien-Li Kao, Antonio Dager, Apostolos Tzikas, Ingibjörg J Gudmundsdottir, Ahmad Edris, Luis Abel Gutiérrez Jaikel, Eduardo A Arias, Mohammed Al-Hijji, Mehmet Ertürk, César Conde-Vela, Darko Boljević, Adolfo Ferrero Guadagnoli, Toomas Hermlin, Ahmed M ElGuindy, Moysés de Oliveira Lima-Filho, Luciano de Moura Santos, Luis Perez, Gabriel Maluenda, Ali Rıza Akyüz, Imad A Alhaddad, Haitham Amin, Chak-Yu So, Arif A Al Nooryani, Carlos Vaca, Juan Albistur, Quang Ngoc Nguyen, Dabit Arzamendi, Eberhard Grube, Thomas Modine, Didier Tchétché, Kentaro Hayashida, Azeem Latib, Raj R Makkar, Nicolo Piazza, Lars Søndergaard, John William McEvoy, Darren Mylotte

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic adversely affected health care systems. Patients in need of transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) are especially susceptible to treatment delays.

OBJECTIVES: The study sought to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on global TAVR activity.

METHODS: This international registry reported monthly TAVR case volume in participating institutions prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic (January 2018 to December 2021). Hospital-level information on public vs private, urban vs rural, and TAVR volume was collected, as was country-level information on socioeconomic status, COVID-19 incidence, and governmental public health responses.

RESULTS: We included 130 centers from 61 countries, including 65,980 TAVR procedures. The first and second pandemic waves were associated with a significant reduction of 15% (P < 0.001) and 7% (P < 0.001) in monthly TAVR case volume, respectively, compared with the prepandemic period. The third pandemic wave was not associated with reduced TAVR activity. A greater reduction in TAVR activity was observed in Africa (-52%; P = 0.001), Central-South America (-33%; P < 0.001), and Asia (-29%; P < 0.001). Private hospitals (P = 0.005), urban areas (P = 0.011), low-volume centers (P = 0.002), countries with lower development (P < 0.001) and economic status (P < 0.001), higher COVID-19 incidence (P < 0.001), and more stringent public health restrictions (P < 0.001) experienced a greater reduction in TAVR activity.

CONCLUSIONS: TAVR procedural volume declined substantially during the first and second waves of the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in Africa, Central-South America, and Asia. National socioeconomic status, COVID-19 incidence, and public health responses were associated with treatment delays. This information should inform public health policy in case of future global health crises.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	374 - 387
Journal	JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions
Volume	17
Issue number	3
Early online date	20 Dec 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcin.2023.10.041
Publication status	Published - 12 Feb 2024

Keywords

aortic valve stenosis
coronavirus disease 2019
transcatheter aortic valve replacement
valvular heart disease

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Armario, X., Carron, J., Simpkin, A. J., Elhadi, M., Kennedy, C., Abdel-Wahab, M., Bleiziffer, S., Lefèvre, T., Wolf, A., Pilgrim, T., Villablanca, P. A., Blackman, D. J., Van Mieghem, N. M., Hengstenberg, C., Swaans, M. J., Prendergast, B. D., Patterson, T., Barbanti, M., Webb, J. G., ... Mylotte, D. (2024). Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Global TAVR Activity: The COVID-TAVI Study. JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions, 17(3), 374 - 387. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcin.2023.10.041

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AU - Armario, Xavier

AU - Carron, Jennifer

AU - Simpkin, Andrew J

AU - Elhadi, Mohamed

AU - Kennedy, Ciara

AU - Abdel-Wahab, Mohamed

AU - Bleiziffer, Sabine

AU - Lefèvre, Thierry

AU - Wolf, Alexander

AU - Pilgrim, Thomas

AU - Villablanca, Pedro A

AU - Blackman, Daniel J

AU - Van Mieghem, Nicolas M

AU - Hengstenberg, Christian

AU - Swaans, Martin J

AU - Prendergast, Bernard D

AU - Patterson, Tiffany

AU - Barbanti, Marco

AU - Webb, John G

AU - Behan, Miles

AU - Resar, Jon

AU - Chen, Mao

AU - Hildick-Smith, David

AU - Spence, Mark S

AU - Zweiker, David

AU - Bagur, Rodrigo

AU - Teles, Rui

AU - Ribichini, Flavio L

AU - Jagielak, Dariusz

AU - Park, Duk-Woo

AU - Kornowski, Ran

AU - Wykrzykowska, Joanna J

AU - Bunc, Matjaz

AU - Estévez-Loureiro, Rodrigo

AU - Poon, Karl

AU - Götberg, Matthias

AU - Jeger, Raban V

AU - Ince, Hüseyin

AU - Packer, Erik J S

AU - Angelillis, Marco

AU - Nombela-Franco, Luis

AU - Guo, Yingqiang

AU - Savontaus, Mikko

AU - Al-Moghairi, Abdulrahman M

AU - Parasca, Catalina Andreea

AU - Kliger, Chad

AU - Roy, David

AU - Molnár, Levente

AU - Silva, Mariana

AU - White, Jonathon

AU - Yamamoto, Masanori

AU - Carrilho-Ferreira, Pedro

AU - Toggweiler, Stefan

AU - Voudris, Vassileios

AU - Ohno, Yohei

AU - Rodrigues, Inês

AU - Parma, Radosław

AU - Ojeda, Soledad

AU - Toutouzas, Kostas

AU - Regueiro, Ander

AU - Grygier, Marek

AU - AlMerri, Khaled

AU - Cruz-González, Ignacio

AU - Fridrich, Viliam

AU - de la Torre Hernández, José M

AU - Noble, Stephane

AU - Kala, Petr

AU - Asmarats, Lluis

AU - Kurt, Ibrahim Halil

AU - Bosmans, Johan

AU - Erglis, Martins

AU - Casserly, Ivan

AU - Iskandarani, Dounia

AU - Bhindi, Ravinay

AU - Kefer, Joelle

AU - Yin, Wei-Hsian

AU - Rosseel, Liesbeth

AU - Kim, Hyo-Soo

AU - O'Connor, Stephen

AU - Hellig, Farrel

AU - Sztejfman, Matias

AU - Mendiz, Oscar

AU - Pineda, Andres M

AU - Seth, Ashok

AU - Pllaha, Elton

AU - de Brito, Fabio S

AU - Bajoras, Vilhelmas

AU - Balghith, Mohammed A

AU - Lee, Michael

AU - Eid-Lidt, Guering

AU - Vandeloo, Bert

AU - Vaz, Vinicius Daher

AU - Alasnag, Mirvat

AU - Ussia, Gian Paolo

AU - Tay, Edgar

AU - Mayol, Jorge

AU - Gunasekaran, Sengottuvelu

AU - Sardella, Gennaro

AU - Buddhari, Wacin

AU - Kao, Hsien-Li

AU - Dager, Antonio

AU - Tzikas, Apostolos

AU - Gudmundsdottir, Ingibjörg J

AU - Edris, Ahmad

AU - Gutiérrez Jaikel, Luis Abel

AU - Arias, Eduardo A

AU - Al-Hijji, Mohammed

AU - Ertürk, Mehmet

AU - Conde-Vela, César

AU - Boljević, Darko

AU - Ferrero Guadagnoli, Adolfo

AU - Hermlin, Toomas

AU - ElGuindy, Ahmed M

AU - Lima-Filho, Moysés de Oliveira

AU - de Moura Santos, Luciano

AU - Perez, Luis

AU - Maluenda, Gabriel

AU - Akyüz, Ali Rıza

AU - Alhaddad, Imad A

AU - Amin, Haitham

AU - So, Chak-Yu

AU - Al Nooryani, Arif A

AU - Vaca, Carlos

AU - Albistur, Juan

AU - Nguyen, Quang Ngoc

AU - Arzamendi, Dabit

AU - Grube, Eberhard

AU - Modine, Thomas

AU - Tchétché, Didier

AU - Hayashida, Kentaro

AU - Latib, Azeem

AU - Makkar, Raj R

AU - Piazza, Nicolo

AU - Søndergaard, Lars

AU - McEvoy, John William

AU - Mylotte, Darren

PY - 2024/2/12

Y1 - 2024/2/12

N2 - BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic adversely affected health care systems. Patients in need of transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) are especially susceptible to treatment delays.OBJECTIVES: The study sought to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on global TAVR activity.METHODS: This international registry reported monthly TAVR case volume in participating institutions prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic (January 2018 to December 2021). Hospital-level information on public vs private, urban vs rural, and TAVR volume was collected, as was country-level information on socioeconomic status, COVID-19 incidence, and governmental public health responses.RESULTS: We included 130 centers from 61 countries, including 65,980 TAVR procedures. The first and second pandemic waves were associated with a significant reduction of 15% (P < 0.001) and 7% (P < 0.001) in monthly TAVR case volume, respectively, compared with the prepandemic period. The third pandemic wave was not associated with reduced TAVR activity. A greater reduction in TAVR activity was observed in Africa (-52%; P = 0.001), Central-South America (-33%; P < 0.001), and Asia (-29%; P < 0.001). Private hospitals (P = 0.005), urban areas (P = 0.011), low-volume centers (P = 0.002), countries with lower development (P < 0.001) and economic status (P < 0.001), higher COVID-19 incidence (P < 0.001), and more stringent public health restrictions (P < 0.001) experienced a greater reduction in TAVR activity.CONCLUSIONS: TAVR procedural volume declined substantially during the first and second waves of the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in Africa, Central-South America, and Asia. National socioeconomic status, COVID-19 incidence, and public health responses were associated with treatment delays. This information should inform public health policy in case of future global health crises.

AB - BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic adversely affected health care systems. Patients in need of transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) are especially susceptible to treatment delays.OBJECTIVES: The study sought to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on global TAVR activity.METHODS: This international registry reported monthly TAVR case volume in participating institutions prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic (January 2018 to December 2021). Hospital-level information on public vs private, urban vs rural, and TAVR volume was collected, as was country-level information on socioeconomic status, COVID-19 incidence, and governmental public health responses.RESULTS: We included 130 centers from 61 countries, including 65,980 TAVR procedures. The first and second pandemic waves were associated with a significant reduction of 15% (P < 0.001) and 7% (P < 0.001) in monthly TAVR case volume, respectively, compared with the prepandemic period. The third pandemic wave was not associated with reduced TAVR activity. A greater reduction in TAVR activity was observed in Africa (-52%; P = 0.001), Central-South America (-33%; P < 0.001), and Asia (-29%; P < 0.001). Private hospitals (P = 0.005), urban areas (P = 0.011), low-volume centers (P = 0.002), countries with lower development (P < 0.001) and economic status (P < 0.001), higher COVID-19 incidence (P < 0.001), and more stringent public health restrictions (P < 0.001) experienced a greater reduction in TAVR activity.CONCLUSIONS: TAVR procedural volume declined substantially during the first and second waves of the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in Africa, Central-South America, and Asia. National socioeconomic status, COVID-19 incidence, and public health responses were associated with treatment delays. This information should inform public health policy in case of future global health crises.

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KW - coronavirus disease 2019

KW - transcatheter aortic valve replacement

KW - valvular heart disease

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DO - 10.1016/j.jcin.2023.10.041

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C2 - 38180419

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SP - 374

EP - 387

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