Deferral of scheduled transcatheter heart valve interventions strongly increases the risk of congestive heart failure.

Sci Rep · 2025 · PMC12402251 · PMID 40890222

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did not reach statistical significancep = 0.078so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

While in our study the overall difference in CHF incidence between the deferred and regularly treated patients on the actual intervention date did not reach statistical significance ( p = 0.078), our finding that one-third of the deferred patients experienced clinical progressive CHF indicates a considerable risk of CHF progression during the waiting time.

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an increasing trendno p-value reported

Due to the drastic rise of TAVR-procedures being performed, an increasing trend of waiting times was observed over time 35 .

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