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Aborted TAVR Following Aortic Balloon Valvuloplasty
Author(s) -
Algarni Khaled D.,
Greason Kevin L.,
Suri Rakesh M.,
Michelena Hector I.,
Maalouf Joseph F.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of cardiac surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.428
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1540-8191
pISSN - 0886-0440
DOI - 10.1111/jocs.12451
Subject(s) - medicine , aortic valvuloplasty , balloon , cardiology , stenosis , aortic valve replacement , aortic valve , cusp (singularity) , valve replacement , fenestration , balloon valvuloplasty , aortic valve stenosis , surgery , geometry , mathematics
An 80‐year‐old man with symptomatic severe aortic valve stenosis was referred for transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) after balloon aortic valvuloplasty (BAV). The TAVR procedure was aborted because of identification of a mobile mass attached to the leading edge of the right cusp of the aortic valve on a transesophageal echocardiography. Surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) was performed and this mass was found to be an aortic cusp fenestration rupture that was caused by the BAV. doi: 10.1111/jocs.12451 (J Card Surg 2015;30:251–252)