Interventions for valvular disease and heart failure

Reference dimensions of stented surgical aortic bioprostheses for valve size determination

EuroIntervention 2020;16:502-506. DOI: 10.4244/EIJ-D-19-00921

Malcolm Anastasius
Malcolm Anastasius1, MBBS, PhD; Marcelo Godoy1, MD; Jonathan R. Weir-McCall2, MBChB, PhD; Vinayak Bapat3, MBChB, MPH; Janarthanan Sathananthan1, MB, DCH, BAO; Mark Hensey1, PhD; Stephanie L. Sellers4, MD; Anson Cheung1; Jian Ye1, MD; David A. Wood1, MD; Jonathon Leipsic1, MD, FSCCT; John Webb1, MD; Philipp Blanke1, MD, FSCCT
1. Center for Heart Valve Innovation, St. Paul’s Hospital and University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; 2. Department of Radiology, University of Cambridge, Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom; 3. Division of Cardiology, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA; 4. Centre for Heart Lung Innovation and Department of Radiology, University of British Columbia and St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada


Introduction

Aortic valve-in-valve (aVIV) procedures are advancing the management of failed bioprosthetic surgical heart valves (SHV)1,2. As opposed to transcatheter heart valve (THV) replacement for native aortic stenosis, selection of the transcatheter THV size for aVIV procedures is based on the SHV size and not on anatomical measurements. However, accurate SHV size information may not be available in medical records. While computed tomography (CT) may be used to derive dimensions of the SHV, it does have limitations3. The aim of this study was to establish reference data for CT dimensions across commonly used aortic stented SHV types and ...

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