How to Perform a Late Surgical Explantation of a CoreValve Aortic Bioprothesis.
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- Also identified by DOI 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2017.01.058.
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Abstract
As transcatheter techniques expand to younger patients, cardiac surgeons need to know a safe surgical technique to extract these kinds of prostheses. We describe here an adequate surgical strategy for the explantation of a CoreValve prosthesis that was implanted more than 5 years previously.
Medical subject headings
- Aortic Valve
- Bioprosthesis
- Device Removal
- Heart Valve Prosthesis