How to Perform a Late Surgical Explantation of a CoreValve Aortic Bioprothesis

Daniel Hernandez-Vaquero; Isaac Pascual; Rocío Diaz; Rubén Álvarez-Cabo; César Moris; Jacobo Silva

doi:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2017.01.058

How to Perform a Late Surgical Explantation of a CoreValve Aortic Bioprothesis

Ann Thorac Surg. 2017 Jun;103(6):e565-e566. doi: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2017.01.058.

Authors

Daniel Hernandez-Vaquero¹, Isaac Pascual², Rocío Diaz², Rubén Álvarez-Cabo², César Moris³, Jacobo Silva³

Affiliations

¹ Cardiac Surgery Department, Heart Area, Central University Hospital of Asturias, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain. Electronic address: dhvaquero@gmail.com.
² Cardiac Surgery Department, Heart Area, Central University Hospital of Asturias, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain.
³ Cardiac Surgery Department, Heart Area, Central University Hospital of Asturias, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain; Department of Medicine, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain.

PMID: 28528072
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2017.01.058

Abstract

As transcatheter techniques expand to younger patients, cardiac surgeons need to know a safe surgical technique to extract these kinds of prostheses. We describe here an adequate surgical strategy for the explantation of a CoreValve prosthesis that was implanted more than 5 years previously.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Aortic Valve / surgery*
Bioprosthesis*
Device Removal / methods*
Heart Valve Prosthesis*
Humans
Middle Aged
Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement