The "dumbbell" technique for improved echocardiography-guided transapical aortic valve implantations.
Ferrari
Enrico
E
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital of Lausanne, CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland. enricoferrari@bluewin.ch
Sulzer
Christopher
C
Marcucci
Carlo
C
von Segesser
Ludwig Karl
LK
D001021:Aortic Valve / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D001024:Aortic Valve Stenosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D006350:Heart Valve Prosthesis; D019918:Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D015607:Stents; D018084:Ultrasonography, Interventional