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Transcatheter aortic valve repair for management of aortic insufficiency in patients supported with left ventricular assist devices
Author(s) -
Pal Jay D.,
McCabe James M.,
Dardas Todd,
Aldea Gabriel S.,
Mokadam Nahush A.
Publication year - 2016
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.12814
Subject(s) - medicine , cardiology , cardiac skeleton , calcification , aortic valve , balloon , aortic valve repair , heart failure , leak , aortic valvuloplasty , aortic valve replacement , surgery , aortic valve stenosis , aorta , aortic root , stenosis , environmental engineering , engineering
The development of new aortic insufficiency after a period of support with a left ventricular assist device can result in progressive heart failure symptoms. Transcatheter aortic valve repair can be an effective treatment in selected patients, but the lack of aortic valve calcification can result in unstable prostheses or paravalvular leak. We describe a technique of deploying a self‐expanding CoreValve (Medtronic, Minneapolis, MN, USA) into the aortic annulus, followed by a balloon‐expandable SAPIEN‐3 (Edwards, Irvine, CA, USA).