Asian cardiovascular & thoracic annalsHumansMaleRetrospective StudiesFemaleHeart Valve Prosthesis
Transcatheter aortic valve implantation in small surgical aortic prosthesis for small body size patients.
Hideki Kitamura, Yuichiro Fukumoto, Yusuke Imamura, Ai Kagase, Masanori Yamamoto
Published: 202510.1177/02184923251331338
Abstract
BackgroundValve-in-valve transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) has been confirmed as effective. Additionally, aortic annular enlargement has been advocated to avoid small valves at initial surgery, because they can cause patient-prosthesis m…
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