November 8, 2017 — Medtronic plc recently presented new clinical research to support the positive clinical performance of the Evolut Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) Platform in intermediate-risk, severe, symptomatic, aortic stenosis patients. Outcomes from the Surgical Replacement and Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (SURTAVI) Trial and the Evolut R FORWARD “real-world” study were presented at the 2017 Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) Annual Meeting, Oct. 29-Nov. 2, in Denver, reinforcing the valve’s strong performance in healthier, more active patients.
Complete one-year outcomes from the SURTAVI trial based on Kaplan-Meier analyses confirmed the strong performance of the CoreValve and Evolut R TAVR systems versus the gold standard of open-heart surgery in an intermediate-risk severe symptomatic aortic stenosis patient population. The results indicate the platform continued to provide comparable results to surgery with regard to the primary combined endpoint of all-cause mortality or disabling stroke (7.8 percent for TAVR vs. 8.5 percent for surgery; p=0.55) at one year. A subgroup analysis of the SURTAVI Continued Access Study (CAS) showed consistently positive safety data for the Evolut R System in intermediate-risk patients with high rates of survival (100 percent) and low rates of all stroke (1.5 percent) or disabling stroke (0.4 percent) at 30-days.
“With its supra-annular and self-expanding design, the Evolut TAVR platform is well-suited to deliver excellent valve performance for intermediate-risk patients who are often considered to be more active than high- or extreme-risk patients,” said Nicolas M. Van Mieghem, M.D., director of interventional cardiology at Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and presenter of the SURTAVI one-year data at the meeting. “As new clinical data are gathered for this patient population, we continue to see the exceptional clinical benefits this self-expanding valve provides as a minimally-invasive treatment alternative to surgery.”
Additionally, a sub-analysis from the SURTAVI trial where patients were stratified based on their STS Predicted Risk of Mortality (PROM) showed that TAVR patients demonstrated a significantly lower rate of all-cause mortality or disabling stroke at one year (1.5 percent vs. 6.5 percent; p=0.04) in the category of patients with STS-PROM < 3 percent. Patients treated with TAVR also showed mortality improvements across risk categories at one year, whereas surgical mortality rates were similar across all STS score categories.
Similarly, results from a subset of 257 “real-world” patients enrolled in the Evolut R FORWARD Study with an STS PROM < 3 percent demonstrated excellent clinical outcomes, with a low rate of all-cause mortality (2 percent) and disabling stroke (1.2 percent) at 30-days post implant.
The CoreValve Evolut TAVR platform consists of the CoreValve, CoreValve Evolut R and the Evolut PRO systems, which are available for use in the United States and Europe for severe aortic stenosis patients at an intermediate surgical risk or greater.
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