The Official Journal of EuroPCR and the European Association of Percutaneous Coronary Interventions (EAPCI)
Interventions for valvular disease and heart failure
Transcatheter aortic valve neo-commissure alignment with the Portico system
Ana Paula Tagliari1,2, MD, MSc; Luca Vicentini1, MS; Jan Michael Zimmermann3, MS; Mizuki Miura1, MD, PhD; Enrico Ferrari1,4, MD, PhD; Daniel Perez1, MD; Philipp K. Haager1,5, MD; Lucas Jörg1,5, MD; Francesco Maisano1, MD; Maurizio Taramasso1, MD, PhD
1. Heart and Valve Center, University Hospital of Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; 2. Postgraduate Program in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Sciences – UFRG, Porto Alegre, Brazil; 3. Mechanical and Process Engineering Department, Product Development Group Zurich, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; 4. Cardiac Surgery Department, Cardiocentro Ticino, Lugano, Switzerland; 5. Kantonsspital St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Introduction
With transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) rapidly spreading its indication to lower-risk and younger patients, reliable and reproducible guidance on how to orient the transcatheter heart valve (THV) to avoid coronary overlap and improve haemodynamic performance becomes an urgent need. It has recently been suggested that the orientation of the neo-commissures during the navigation of the delivery system could be correlated with their final position in the aortic annulus and, consequently, modified to improve final THV orientation1. However, no previous study has considered the effect of different aorta angulations and how to add this variable to a neo-commissure ...
With transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) rapidly spreading its indication to lower-risk and younger patients, reliable and reproducible guidance on how to orient the transcatheter heart valve (THV) to avoid coronary overlap and improve haemodynamic performance becomes an urgent need. It has recently been suggested that the orientation of the neo-commissures during the navigation of the delivery system could be correlated with their final position in the aortic annulus and, consequently, modified to improve final THV orientation1. However, no previous study has considered the effect of different aorta angulations and how to add this variable to a neo-commissure ...
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