Declining Trend of Transapical Access for Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement in Patients with Aortic Stenosis

Table 1

Demographics and hospital characteristics in patients undergoing TAVR through transapical vs. nontransapical approaches.

	Non-TA-TAVR	TA-TAVR	value
Total number of procedures	119,663	10,158
Mean age (years)	80.65 ± 0.06	79.71 ± 0.23	0.0001
Gender (%)
Female	45.53	50	0.0002
Race (%)
White	87.3	87.19	0.25
Black	3.99	3.35
Hispanic	4.22	4.99
Primary expected payer (%)			0.13
Medicare	90.72	88.95
Medicaid	1.05	1.25
Private insurance	6.43	7.66
Self-pay	0.44	0.75
No charge	0.02	0.05
Other	1.34	1.34
Region of hospital (%)			0.25
Northeast	24.18	26.44
Midwest	22.98	19.27
South	33.81	34.55
West	19.03	19.74
Hospital bed size (%)			0.84
Small	5.51	6.02
Medium	18.11	17.58
Large	76.39	76.4
Median household income national quartile for patient ZIP code (%)			0.99
0–25^th percentile	21.16	21.23
26^th to 50^th percentile	25.47	25.51
51^st to 75^th percentile	26.2	26.25
76^th to 100^th percentile	27.18	27