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Dan Loberman1, Taufiek Konrad Rajab1, Maroun Yammine1
1Division of Cardiac Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
Abstract:
With the development of the transcatheter aortic valve replacement, innovative approaches can be geared to atypical and challenging cases. We describe a case of transcatheter aortic valve replacement via a left anterior thoracotomy in a patient with pectus excavatum and unusual intrathoracic anatomy where surgical and traditional transcatheter aortic valve replacement approaches were deemed inapplicable.
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