Successful implantation of self-expanding valve for a failed stentless prosthesis |
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| Authors: | Bessem Gara Ali MD PhD Raoul Bonan MD Danily Villar BSN RN Raymond Cartier MD |
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| Institution: | Department of Cardiac Surgery and Cardiology, Montreal Heart Institute, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
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| Abstract: | Valve-in-valve transcatheter aortic valve implantation is currently used for failed bioprosthesis. The use of a transcatheter prosthesis in a regurgitant noncalcified root implanted Medtronic Freestyle prosthesis is particularly challenging. We present a successful transaxillary valve-in-valve implantation of a self-expandable transcatheter aortic valve prosthesis in a failed Freestyle bioprothesis implanted eleven years earlier. Tips and tricks are discussed. |
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| Keywords: | aortic valve replacement reoperation stentless valve transcatheter self-expanding prosthesis valve-in-valve |
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