Severe Valvular Regurgitation: An Unexpected Complication During Transapical Aortic Valve Implantation Treated Successfully with the “Valve-in-Valve” Procedure

Year 2012, Volume: 2012 Issue: 4, 444 - 446, 01.04.2012

Ethem Kavukcu Kamil Mehmet Burgazlı Rıdvan Chasan Ethem Kavukçu Mehmet Bilgin Ali Erdoğan

https://doi.org/10.5152/balkanmedj.2012.040

Abstract

Severe symptomatic aortic stenosis (AS) in a multimorbid 77 year old female was treated with transapical aortic valve implantation with a 23 mm Edwards Sapien valve. Severe valvular regurgitation following implantation, probably due to structural valve failure, was treated successfully with a second valve-in- valve implantation. During a follow-up time of 2,5 years no further problems occurred.

Keywords

TAVI, aortic regurgitation, complication

Severe Valvular Regurgitation: An Unexpected Complication During Transapical Aortic Valve Implantation Treated Successfully with the “Valve-in-Valve” Procedure

Abstract

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