SAVR vs TAVR with concomitant AF. Who gets treated and who does better?
Dr. Hunter Mehaffey is an outstanding Cardiac Surgeon and Clinical Researcher at the West Virginia University. During this episode we discuss his most recent fantastic contribution to the space of surgical treatment of atrial fibrillation with an episode about SAVR vs TAVR with concomitant AF. You definitely want to listen to this entire episode!
Does Surgical Ablation offer additional benefit over Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion?
Dr. Hunter Mehaffey is an outstanding Cardiac Surgeon and Clinical Researcher at the West Virginia University. He recently presented at the AATS 2023 meeting and published in JTCVS a large Medicare analysis of over 100,000 cardiac surgery patients with pre-existing AF in attempts to answer the question if surgical ablation confers additional clinical advantage over LAAO alone. This is definitely worth a listen!