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Internal Banding to Reduce Paravalvular Leaks for Open Transcatheter Valve Implantation
Javier Gualis1, Tomás Benito-González2, José Manuel Martínez-Comendador1
1Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital of León, León, Spain.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|December 23, 2018
Abstract:
Transcatheter valve implantation has become an alternative to open-heart conventional surgery in high-risk patients. We describe a new surgical technique that allows the implantation of a transcatheter valvular prosthesis through an open surgical approach to prevent the appearance of paravalvular leaks in patients with large native rings.