Transapical aortic valve implantation – a rescue procedure for patients with aortic stenosis and “porcelain aorta”

Surgical aortic valve replacement (AVR) still remains the treatment of choice in symptomatic significant aortic stenosis (AS). Due to technical problems, extensive calcification of the ascending aorta (“porcelain aorta”) is an additional risk factor for surgery and transapical aortic valve implantat...

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Autores principales: Czerwinska, Katarzyna, Orłowska-Baranowska, Ewa, Witkowski, Adam, Demkow, Marcin, Abramczuk, Elżbieta, Michałek, Piotr, Greszata, Lidia, Stoklosa, Patrycjusz, Kuśmierski, Krzysztof, Kowal, Jaroslaw, Stepinska, Janina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Termedia Publishing House 2011
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3258736/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22295040
http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/aoms.2011.23425
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Sumario:Surgical aortic valve replacement (AVR) still remains the treatment of choice in symptomatic significant aortic stenosis (AS). Due to technical problems, extensive calcification of the ascending aorta (“porcelain aorta”) is an additional risk factor for surgery and transapical aortic valve implantation (TAAVI) is likely to be the only rescue procedure for this group of patients. We describe the case of an 81-year-old woman with severe AS and “porcelain aorta”, in whom the only available life-saving intervention was TAAVI.

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