Combined transaortic transcatheter valve replacement and thoracic endografting

Direct transaortic (TAo) approach for transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) in patients with symptomatic, severe aortic stenosis (AS) with prohibitive transfemoral access is being increasingly performed. Furthermore, concomitant catheter-based procedures such as percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) are also being increasingly performed during TAVR. We report a single-stage, catheter-based treatment of both critical AS and descending thoracic aortic aneurysm (DTA) by performing TAVR with concomitant thoracic aortic endovascular repair (TEVAR) through direct TAo access via a minimally invasive partial sternotomy approach. To our knowledge, this is the first report of a "hybrid" TAVR+TEVAR.