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Comparison of Outcomes of Balloon Aortic Valvuloplasty Plus Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Versus Percutaneous Aortic Balloon Valvuloplasty Alone During the Same Hospitalization in the United States
The use of percutaneous aortic balloon balvotomy (PABV) in high surgical risk patients has resurged because of development of less invasive endovascular therapies. We compared outcomes of concomitant PABV and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with PABV alone during same hospitalization using nation's largest hospitalization database. We identified patients and determined time trends using the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification, procedure code for valvulotomy from Nationwide Inpatient Sample database 1998 to 2010.
