title: Transcatheter aortic valve implantation and hybrid coronary artery revascularization: time to combine them.
abstract: We report on simultaneous off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting to the left anterior descending artery, modified transapical aortic valve implantation, and stenting of the circumflex and right coronary arteries in an 84-year-old patient. The poly-morbid patient with a logistic EuroSCORE of 85% experienced recent myocardial infarction; the left ventricular ejection fraction was reduced to 20%. Postoperative recovery was fast and short. The strategy described is the next logical step in broadening the indication for transcatheter aortic valve interventions.
authors.affiliation: From the Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Axel
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Unbehaun
authors.forename: Miralem
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pasic
authors.forename: Stephan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dreysse
authors.forename: Semih
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Buz
authors.forename: Marian
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kukucka
authors.forename: Roland
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hetzer
authors.forename: Thorsten
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Drews