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Edwards Sapien XT® pulmonic valve compression after resuscitation and successful redilatation
Author(s) -
Lehner Anja,
Kantzis Marinos,
Haas Nikolaus A.
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.27644
Subject(s) - medicine , resuscitation , fluoroscopy , compression (physics) , cardiology , cardiopulmonary resuscitation , surgery , materials science , composite material
Abstract Despite the increasing use of percutaenous valves, little is known about valve performance after external chest compression. We report a case of a compressed pulmonary Edwards Sapien® XT valve after resuscitation. With the patient on ECMO, successful redilatation was performed with unimpaired postprocedural valve function. We aim to increase the awareness for valve distortion after external chest compression with increasing numbers of transcatheter valvulations. We suggest that immediate re‐evaluation of the implanted device via biplane fluoroscopy is mandatory after resuscitation in such cases.