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ArticleJournal of the American Heart Association2025

A Two-Step Risk Score for Prediction of Permanent Pacemaker Implantation After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation.

Alexandra Janiszewski, Julia Lueg, Daniel Schulze, Benjamin Juri, Louis Morell, Maria Hajduczenia, Pierre Hennig, Aslihan Erbay, Alexander Lembcke, Stefan Niehues and 5 more

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Article in Journal of the American Heart Association, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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  1. Permanent Pacemaker Implantation Following Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: Incidence, Predictors, and Association With Reduced Ischemic Stroke Risk.Catheterization and cardiovascular interventions : official journal of the Society for Cardiac Angiography & Interventions · 2026
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Alexandra JaniszewskiDepartment of Cardiology, Angiology and Intensive Care Medicine Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité Berlin Germany.
Julia LuegDepartment of Cardiology, Angiology and Intensive Care Medicine Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité Berlin Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-7905-704X
Daniel SchulzeCharité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Institute of Biometry and Clinical Epidemiology Berlin Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-9415-2555
Benjamin JuriDepartment of Cardiology, Angiology and Intensive Care Medicine Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité Berlin Germany.
Louis MorellDepartment of Cardiology, Angiology and Intensive Care Medicine Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité Berlin Germany.
Maria HajduczeniaDepartment of Cardiology, Angiology and Intensive Care Medicine Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité Berlin Germany.
Pierre HennigDepartment of Cardiology, Angiology and Intensive Care Medicine Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité Berlin Germany.
Aslihan ErbayDepartment of Cardiology University Hospital Frankfurt Frankfurt am Main Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-9159-4929
Alexander LembckeCharité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Germany.
Stefan NiehuesCharité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Germany.
Ulf LandmesserDepartment of Cardiology, Angiology and Intensive Care Medicine Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité Berlin Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-0214-3203
Karl StanglDepartment of Cardiology, Angiology and Intensive Care Medicine Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité Berlin Germany.ORCID 0009-0002-8661-8663
David LeistnerDepartment of Cardiology University Hospital Frankfurt Frankfurt am Main Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-4351-420X
Verena TschollDepartment of Cardiology, Angiology and Intensive Care Medicine Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité Berlin Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-2748-2540
Henryk DregerDepartment of Cardiology, Angiology and Intensive Care Medicine Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité Berlin Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-1909-4329

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe need for postoperative permanent pacemaker implantation (PPMI) remains one of the most frequent complications after transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI). This study aimed to develop a novel, 2-step risk score to predict PPMI probability after TAVI and implement it into a user-friendly website. Our risk score addresses the data gap on current prosthesis generations and provides a new, clinically motivated approach to calculating PPMI risk. METHODS AND

resultsBetween January 2019 and December 2020, 1039 patients underwent TAVI at our institution. We retrospectively evaluated clinical, electrocardiographic, echocardiographic, computed tomographic, and periprocedural data. Patients with prior PPMI were excluded. We developed a prediction model for PPMI occurrence, using 55 patient and procedural characteristics. With exclusion criteria applied, 836 patients (mean age 80.3±9.1 years; 50.6% female) were included. Of these, 149 (17.8%) required PPMI within 30 days after TAVI. Fourteen preprocedural parameters, including preexisting right bundle-branch block, atrioventricular block, left bundle-branch block, bradycardia, interventricular septum thickness, New York Heart Association class, and aortic annulus perimeter, were identified as PPMI risk factors and used to calculate the baseline risk in the first step of the TAVI PACER score. The second step includes intraprocedural variables to demonstrate how PPMI risk can vary based on valve type and implantation depth. The TAVI PACER score predicts PPMI with a sensitivity of 76% and specificity of 72% (area under the curve=0.8).

conclusionsThe TAVI PACER score provides a novel tool for daily clinical practice, predicting individual PPMI risk after TAVI based on various patient and procedural characteristics.

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Aortic Valve StenosisCardiac Pacing, ArtificialPacemaker, ArtificialPostoperative ComplicationsTranscatheter Aortic Valve ReplacementAgedAged, 80 and overElectrocardiographyFemaleHumansMalePredictive Value of TestsRetrospective StudiesRisk AssessmentRisk Factorsaortic valvepacemakerrisk scoreTAVI

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PMCPMC12184592

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