Rupture of the device landing zone during transcatheter aortic valve implantation: A life-threatening but treatable complication

Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 424-432

  Pasic, Miralem ^a   Unbehaun, Axel ^a   Dreysse, Stephan ^a   Buz, Semih ^a   Drews, Thorsten ^a   Kukucka, Marian ^a   D'Ancona, Giuseppe ^a   Seifert, Burkhardt ^b   Hetzer, Roland ^a  

^a DEUTSCHES HERZZENTRUM BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Annulus rupture; Prosthesis; Surgery; TAVI; Transapical; Transcatheter; Valves

Indexed keywords

AGED; AORTA RUPTURE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE IMPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTA; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART INJURIES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; IATROGENIC DISEASE; MALE; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84864612719     PISSN: 19417640     EISSN: 19417632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCINTERVENTIONS.111.967315     Document Type: Article

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