Which available transapical transcatheter valve fits into degenerated aortic bioprostheses?

Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg. 2010 Jul;11(1):83-5. doi: 10.1510/icvts.2010.234625. Epub 2010 Apr 15.

Abstract

The transapical transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TA-TAVI) in degenerated aortic bioprosthesis is an emerging therapy for surgically non-amenable patients. However, the presence of different types of aortic bioprostheses (stented and stentless), available in different sizes (19-27 mm), can be at the origin of important mismatches between the malfunctioning, degenerated aortic valves and the inner stent-valves implanted through transapical accesses (23 and 26 mm Edwards Sapien transcatheter stent-valves). We report an emergency TA-TAVI treatment of a severely regurgitant degenerated 23 mm Mitroflow aortic bioprosthesis (Sorin Group, Milano, Italy) implanted seven years earlier in an 80-year-old lady, and we reviewed the current available literature about transapical 'valve-in-valve' procedures to analyze the hemodynamic results and the ideal 'prosthesis-to-prosthesis' match.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Aortic Valve / diagnostic imaging
  • Aortic Valve / physiopathology
  • Aortic Valve / surgery*
  • Aortic Valve Insufficiency / diagnostic imaging
  • Aortic Valve Insufficiency / etiology
  • Aortic Valve Insufficiency / physiopathology
  • Aortic Valve Insufficiency / therapy*
  • Bioprosthesis*
  • Cardiac Catheterization / instrumentation*
  • Echocardiography, Transesophageal
  • Female
  • Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation / adverse effects
  • Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation / instrumentation*
  • Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation / methods
  • Heart Valve Prosthesis*
  • Hemodynamics
  • Humans
  • Prosthesis Design
  • Prosthesis Failure*