title: Transaortic valve-in-valve implantation after previous aortic root homograft.
abstract: Catheter-based valve implantation techniques are becoming a viable option in various clinical situations to replace difficult redo open heart surgical procedures. This is a report of a first, to our knowledge, successful valve-in-valve (VinV) transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) into a homograft through the transaortic (TAo) access route using an Edwards SAPIEN valve prosthesis (Edwards Lifesciences, LLC, Irvine, CA) in a patient with poor left ventricular function and generalized severe atherosclerosis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland. leo.ihlberg@hus.fi
authors.forename: Leo
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ihlberg
authors.forename: Antero
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sahlman
authors.forename: Juha
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sinisalo
authors.forename: Janne
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rapola
authors.forename: Mika
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Laine
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001021:Aortic Valve / Q000601:surgery*; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization; D006350:Heart Valve Prosthesis; D019918:Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male