Intracardiac Shunts Following Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: Not So Rare as to Be Ignored?

JACC Cardiovasc Interv. 2016 Dec 26;9(24):2539-2540. doi: 10.1016/j.jcin.2016.10.016. Epub 2016 Nov 23.

Authors

Gidon Y Perlman¹, John G Webb²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiology, St. Paul's Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Department of Cardiology, St. Paul's Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

PMID: 27889350
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcin.2016.10.016

No abstract available

Keywords: TAVR; intracardiac shunt; valve oversizing; ventricular septal rupture.

Publication types

Editorial
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MeSH terms

Aortic Valve / surgery*
Aortic Valve Stenosis / surgery
Heart Valve Prosthesis
Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement*
Treatment Outcome