The Official Journal of EuroPCR and the European Association of Percutaneous Coronary Interventions (EAPCI)
INTERVENTIONS FOR VALVULAR DISEASE AND HEART FAILURE
High-pressure balloon fracturing of small dysfunctional Mitroflow bioprostheses facilitates transcatheter aortic valve-in-valve implantation
EuroIntervention 2017;13:e1020-e1025 published online ahead of print September 2017 published online e-edition October 2017. DOI: 10.4244/EIJ-D-17-00244
Jens Erik Nielsen-Kudsk1*, MD, DMSc; Asger Andersen1, MD, PhD; Christian Juhl Therkelsen1, MD, PhD, DMSc; Evald Høj Christensen1, MD, PhD; Kaare Troels Jensen1, MD, PhD; Lars Romer Krusell1, MD, PhD; Mariann Tang2, MD, PhD; Kim Allan Terp2, MD, PhD; Kaj-Erik Klaaborg2, MD; Jacob Raben Greisen3, MD, PhD; Bjarne Linde Nørgaard1, MD, PhD; Henning Rud Andersen1, MD, DMSc
1. Department of Cardiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark; 2. Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark; 3. Department of Cardiothoracic Anaesthesiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
Aims: Transcatheter valve-in-valve (VIV) implantation is usually discouraged in small surgical tissue valves. We report our first ten cases of fracturing small dysfunctional Mitroflow bio