Cutaneo-pericardial fistula after transapical aortic valve implantation
Michael Scheid1, Christina Grothusen, Georg Lutter
1Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany.
Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
|December 19, 2012
Abstract:
Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) represents a therapeutic option of increasing impact for the treatment of high-risk patients with symptomatic, severe aortic valve stenosis. We report here the case of an 86-year old patient with a cutaneo-pericardial fistula after a transapical TAVI procedure.


