Among patients with severe aortic stenosis and prior CABG, aortic valve replacement is being increasingly done with transcatheter instead of surgical procedures, researchers reported.

TAVR is associated with similar in-hospital mortality but lower rates of in-hospital complications compared with surgical AVR in this population, Tanush Gupta, MD, from the division of cardiology at Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and colleagues wrote.