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Full-root Aortic Valve Replacement by Stentless Aortic Xenografts in Patients with Small Aortic Roots
Published on: May 21, 2017
Trans-apical aortic valve implantation in a patient with stentless valve degeneration
Emmanouil I Kapetanakis1, Philip MacCarthy, Mark Monaghan
1Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill Road, London, SE5 9RS, UK.
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.
