Transcatheter aortic valve replacement 24 years after cardiac transplantation |
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| Authors: | Tyler J. Wallen DO John Spratt MD Malcolm M. Kates BS Siddharth Wayangankar MD Juan Vilaro MD Juan Aranda MD George J. Arnaoutakis MD |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, The University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida;2. Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, The University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida |
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| Abstract: | ![]()
As patient survival after cardiac transplantation has improved over the course of the last several decades, clinicians are now faced with late complications. This includes aortic stenosis which, traditionally, has been treated with reoperative sternotomy and aortic valve replacement. Transcather aortic valve replacement (TAVR) offers a minimally invasive alternative in this high-risk population. A small but growing number of cases of TAVR after heart transplantation in high-risk patients have been reported in the last 10 years; we now present a case of aortic valve replacement via a transcatheter approach 24 years after cardiac transplantation. |
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| Keywords: | heart failure transcatheter valve transplantation |
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