title: Trans-apical aortic valve implantation in a patient with stentless valve degeneration.
abstract: Trans-apical valve-in-valve trans-catheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) has successfully been performed in selected, high-risk patients, who suffered prosthetic degeneration after aortic valve replacement using stented xenografts. We report the case of a 79-year-old male patient who underwent one of the first successful TAVIs in a failing stentless bioprosthesis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill Road, London, SE5 9RS, UK.
authors.forename: Emmanouil I
authors.initials: EI
authors.lastname: Kapetanakis
authors.forename: Philip
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: MacCarthy
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Monaghan
authors.forename: Olaf
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Wendler
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001021:Aortic Valve / Q000601:surgery*; D001024:Aortic Valve Stenosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D001705:Bioprosthesis; D005471:Fluoroscopy; D006350:Heart Valve Prosthesis; D019918:Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D019060:Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods; D011475:Prosthesis Failure; D012086:Reoperation / Q000379:methods; D015607:Stents; D014463:Ultrasonography