Elliptical Shape of a SAPIEN XT Prosthesis Deployed in a Patient with Bicuspid Aortic Valve Stenosis
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Rachid Zegdi, Didier Blanchard, Arschid Azarine, Thierry Folliguet, Jean-Noël Fabiani |
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Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) has been shown as an effective procedure in patients considered at high risk for surgery. Aortic valve bicuspidy, as encountered in up of 50% of patients with severe aortic stenosis, has been considered a contraindication to TAVI. One reason for this is that stent deformation is likely to occur after prosthesis deployment, but this has been refuted by recent |
observations with the SAPIEN prosthesis. Herein is reported the first case of a severely deformed SAPIEN XT prosthesis after TAVI in a patient with severe symptomatic aortic stenosis, and known to have a bicuspid native aortic valve. |
| Elliptical Shape of a SAPIEN XT Prosthesis Deployed in a Patient with Bicuspid Aortic Valve Stenosis | |
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