How to Perform a Late Surgical Explantation of a CoreValve Aortic Bioprothesis.

Hernandez-Vaquero, Daniel; Pascual, Isaac; Diaz, Rocío; Álvarez-Cabo, Rubén; Moris, César; Silva, Jacobo · Ann Thorac Surg · 2017

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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.

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