Strategies to Address Extreme Aortic Tortuosity During Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement

JACC Cardiovasc Interv. 2022 Apr 11;15(7):791-792. doi: 10.1016/j.jcin.2022.01.305. Epub 2022 Mar 16.

Authors

Yu Yang¹, Hongbo Yang¹, Jiahua Pan¹, Gejun Zhang²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiology, Fuwai Yunnan Hospital, Kunming, China.
² Department of Cardiology, Fuwai Yunnan Hospital, Kunming, China; Center of Structural Heart Disease, State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China. Electronic address: gjzhang212@163.com.

PMID: 35305909
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcin.2022.01.305

No abstract available

Keywords: torturous artery; transcatheter aortic valve replacement; transfemoral access.

MeSH terms

Aortic Valve / diagnostic imaging
Aortic Valve / surgery
Aortic Valve Stenosis* / diagnostic imaging
Aortic Valve Stenosis* / surgery
Femoral Artery / surgery
Humans
Risk Factors
Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement* / adverse effects
Treatment Outcome