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  • Titel: Delayed Improvement of Depression and Anxiety after Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) in Stages of Extended Extra-Valvular Cardiac Damage
  • Beteiligte: Bäz, Laura [Verfasser:in]; Puscholt, Marisa [Verfasser:in]; Diab, Mahmoud [Verfasser:in]; Möbius-Winkler, Sven [Verfasser:in]; Schulze, Paul Christian [Verfasser:in]; Dannberg, Gudrun [Verfasser:in]; Franz, Marcus [Verfasser:in]
  • Erschienen: 8 April 2021
  • Erschienen in: Journal of Clinical Medicine ; 10(2021,8) Artikel-Nummer 1579, 13 Seiten
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.3390/jcm10081579
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  • Beschreibung: Abstract: Background: Depression and anxiety are frequently occurring and likely to be linked to the severity of cardiac diseases like aortic stenosis (AS). This seems to be of interest since a staging classification of extra-valvular cardiac damage in AS has been introduced and shown to be of prognostic relevance. Objective: The current study aimed to investigate the frequency of depression and anxiety in association to staging and their dynamics after transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI). Methods: A total number of 224 AS patients undergoing TAVI were classified according to the 2017 staging classification into stage 0 to 4 and further dichotomized into group A (stage 0 to 2) and B (stage 3 and 4). Using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS-D), patients were assigned to depressive versus non-depressive or anxious versus non-anxious per staging group respectively, and analyzed at baseline, 6 weeks, 6 months and 12 months after TAVI. Results: After dichotomization, 158 patients (70.5%) were assigned to group A and 66 patients (29.5%) to group B. The part showing pathologic values for depression was 25.4% (57/224 patients) in the entire collective, 26.6% (42/158 patients) in group A and 22.7% (15/66 patients) in group B (p = n.s.). The proportion showing pathologic values for anxiety was 26.8% (60/224 patients) in the entire collective and did not differ between group A (24.7%, 39/158 patients) and B (31.8%, 21/66 patients) (p = n.s.). In patients revealing pathologic values for depression or anxiety prior to TAVI, there were significant and stable improvements over time observable already in short-term (6 weeks) follow-up in group A, and likewise, but later, in long-term (6/12 months) follow-up in group B. Conclusions: Although of proven prognostic relevance, higher stages of extra-valvular cardiac damage are not associated with higher rates of pre-existing depression or anxiety. The TAVI procedure resulted in a persisting reduction of depression and anxiety in patients showing pathologic values at baseline. Notably, these improvements are timely delayed in higher stages.Keywords: aortic stenosis; staging of extra-valvular cardiac damage; depression; anxiety; transcatheter aortic valve implantation; follow-up
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