Perforation of the descending thoracic aorta during transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI): An unexpected and dramatic procedural complication

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 77, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1076-1078

  Aminian, Adel ^a   Lalmand, Jacques ^a   El Nakadi, Badih ^a  

^a Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Charleroi   (Belgium)

Author keywords

aortic perforation; complication; TAVI

Indexed keywords

INOTROPIC AGENT; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENT;

AGED; AORTA PERFORATION; AORTA STENOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; FLUID RESUSCITATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LUNG EDEMA; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; SHOCK; TACHYCARDIA; THORACIC AORTA; TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE IMPLANTATION; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC RUPTURE; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; AORTOGRAPHY; AUTOPSY; BIOPROSTHESIS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASCULAR SYSTEM INJURIES;

EID: 79958294175     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: 1522726X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ccd.22960     Document Type: Article

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