Delayed Aortic Dissection after Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation
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Nawwar Al-Attar1, Dominique Himbert2, François Barbier3, Alec Vahanian2, Patrick Nataf1 Departments of 1Cardiac Surgery and 2Cardiology, and 3Medical Intensive Care, Bichat Hospital, Paris, France |
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In selected high-risk patients with aortic stenosis, transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) can provide comparable functional improvement and early survival after surgical aortic valve replacement. However, the long-term outcome after TAVI is still to be determined and |
the occurrence of aortic dissection has not been systematically reported. Herein, a case is presented of delayed aortic dissection and rupture several months after an uneventful TAVI in a patient with bicuspid aortic valve stenosis. The Journal of Heart Valve Disease 2013;22:701-703 |
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