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Fracture of the delivery balloon shaft during balloon‐expandable prosthesis alignment during implantation of an E dwards SAPIEN 3
Author(s) -
Arai Takahide,
Hovasse Thomas,
Chevalier Bernard
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
catheterization and cardiovascular interventions
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.988
H-Index - 116
eISSN - 1522-726X
pISSN - 1522-1946
DOI - 10.1002/ccd.26561
Subject(s) - medicine , prosthesis , balloon , surgery , delivery system , prosthesis design , prosthesis implantation , biomedical engineering
The expandable sheath was designed with a lower profile in order to reduce the incidence of vascular complications of transcatheter aortic valve implantation using transfemoral approach. However, once the prosthesis has crossed the sheath, it could be difficult to retrieve it from the body. This is the first case of successful bail‐out in an instance of delivery balloon shaft malfunction subsequent to the crossing of an expandable sheath during implantation of an Edwards SAPIEN 3 prosthesis. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.