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A Simplified Stepwise Approach to Echo Guidance during Percutaneous Mitral Valve Repair
Published on: October 16, 2021
Concomitant transapical mitral valvuloplasty and CentriMag assist device placement: in a "no-option" patient
Biswajit Kar1, Angelo Nascimbene, Pranav Loyalka
1Departments of Cardiology (Drs. Kar, Kikec, Loyalka, Nascimbene, and Nathan) and Cardiovascular Surgery (Drs. Frazier and Gregoric), Texas Heart Institute, Houston, Texas 77030.
Abstract:
Left ventricular assist devices and percutaneous valve interventions have radically changed the treatment of advanced heart disease and minimized surgical morbidity in patients with end-stage heart failure who would not survive conventional surgery. We describe a successful approach to the simultaneous placement of a percutaneous left ventricular assist device and mitral valvuloplasty in a decompensated patient with end-stage ischemic cardiomyopathy, severe peripheral arterial disease, porcelain aorta, and severe mitral and aortic disease.
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