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Emerging transcatheter therapies for aortic and mitral disease
  1. A Messori,
  2. S Trippoli
  1. Careggi Hospital, Laboratorio di Farmacoeconomia, Florence, Italy
  1. Correspondence to Dr Andrea Messori, Careggi Hospital, Laboratorio di Farmacoeconomia, Florence, Italy; andreamessori{at}interfree.it

https://doi.org/10.1136/hrt.2009.165456

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    To the editor: One issue that has not been discussed in the paper by Christofferson et al1 is the cost-effectiveness of transcatheter therapies, particularly those based on the new transcatheter aortic valves.

    Previous cost-effectiveness studies on surgical aortic valve replacement (AVR) compared AVR with best medical therapy (or no operation) and found that AVR had an acceptable cost-effectiveness profile (cost per quality-adjusted life year gained  =  approximately $13 500 calculated from an incremental lifetime cost of around $110 000 per patient and an incremental lifetime benefit of 8.2 quality-adjusted life years gained per patient in a series of 4617 subjects2). Likewise, …

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