• Eur J Cardiothorac Surg · Mar 2010

    Case Reports

    Transapical off-pump aortic valve-in-a-valve implantation in two elderly patients with a degenerated porcine bioprosthesis.

    • Luis C Maroto, José E Rodríguez, Javier Cobiella, and Pedro Marcos.
    • Department of Cardiac Surgery, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain. lmarotoc.hcsc@salud.madrid.org
    • Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2010 Mar 1;37(3):738-40.

    AbstractRe-operative heart-valve replacement is a high-risk procedure and even more so in elderly patients. Another option in high-risk patients with a degenerated aortic xenograft is the implant of a second aortic bioprosthesis using a transcatheter approach. We report two cases of patients with a severely degenerated porcine aortic bioprosthesis who were successfully treated by a transapical valve-in-a-valve implantation.Copyright (c) 2009 European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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