Swedish Study on STroke After TAVR (SWESTAT)

Region Skane

Status

Completed

Conditions

Stroke

Aortic Valve Disease

Treatments

Device: TAVR

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT04086836

SWESTAT

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aims at studying the frequency of late stroke after transcatheter aortic valve replacement/implantation

Full description

Since the start of transcatheter aortic valve implnatations/replacements (TAVR/TAVI) implantations in Sweden in 2008 all procedures have been added to a national database, which now contains 5000+ procedures. At the same time, all admissions to the hospital is also recorded with diagnosis in a separate database. We intend to make a nation-wide complete follow up of all TAVR/TAVI patients in swede that has received the diagnosis of stroke after the implantation. In addition data will also be collected from the national stroke database for detailed information of the cases

Enrollment

4,600 patients

Sex

All

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

All patients that has under TAVR/TAVI in Sweden between 2008 and 2018 Exclusion Criteria: Patients unable to follow up due to emigration or missing social security number

Exclusion criteria

Periprocedural stroke