Transapical aortic valve implantation - a rescue procedure for patients with aortic stenosis and "porcelain aorta". 2011

Katarzyna Czerwinska, and Ewa Orłowska-Baranowska, and Adam Witkowski, and Marcin Demkow, and Elżbieta Abramczuk, and Piotr Michałek, and Lidia Greszata, and Patrycjusz Stoklosa, and Krzysztof Kuśmierski, and Jaroslaw Kowal, and Janina Stepinska
Institute of Cardiology, Warsaw, Poland.

Surgical aortic valve replacement (AVR) still remains the treatment of choice in symptomatic significant aortic stenosis (AS). Due to technical problems, extensive calcification of the ascending aorta ("porcelain aorta") is an additional risk factor for surgery and transapical aortic valve implantation (TAAVI) is likely to be the only rescue procedure for this group of patients. We describe the case of an 81-year-old woman with severe AS and "porcelain aorta", in whom the only available life-saving intervention was TAAVI.

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