TCT 2019: One-Year PARTNER 3 Outcomes Show Better Quality Of Life With TAVR

An analysis of the PARTNER 3 trial shows transcatheter aortic replacement with Edwards Sapien 3 yields better health status outcomes than surgical valve replacement after one year.

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A new analysis of the one-year PARTNER 3 results show TAVR with Edwards Lifesciences Corp.’s Sapien 3 offers a modest disease-specific health status advantage over surgical valve replacement.

The one-year results from PARTNER 3, published in May, showed TAVR with Sapien 3 resulted in lower rates of death and rehospitalization at one year compared with surgery in patients with severe aortic stenosis at low surgical risk. The PARTNER 3 results led the US Food and Drug Administration to expand the approved labeling for Sapien 3 to include these low-risk patients

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