Trans-apical aortic valve implantation in a patient with stentless valve degeneration

Emmanouil I Kapetanakis; Philip MacCarthy; Mark Monaghan; Olaf Wendler

doi:10.1016/j.ejcts.2010.11.013

Trans-apical aortic valve implantation in a patient with stentless valve degeneration

Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2011 Jun;39(6):1051-3. doi: 10.1016/j.ejcts.2010.11.013. Epub 2010 Dec 16.

Authors

Emmanouil I Kapetanakis¹, Philip MacCarthy, Mark Monaghan, Olaf Wendler

Affiliation

¹ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill Road, London, SE5 9RS, UK.

PMID: 21167729
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcts.2010.11.013

Abstract

Trans-apical valve-in-valve trans-catheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) has successfully been performed in selected, high-risk patients, who suffered prosthetic degeneration after aortic valve replacement using stented xenografts. We report the case of a 79-year-old male patient who underwent one of the first successful TAVIs in a failing stentless bioprosthesis.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Aged
Aortic Valve / surgery*
Aortic Valve Stenosis / diagnostic imaging
Aortic Valve Stenosis / surgery*
Bioprosthesis
Fluoroscopy
Heart Valve Prosthesis
Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation / methods*
Humans
Male
Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures / methods
Prosthesis Failure
Reoperation / methods
Stents
Ultrasonography