How to Perform a Late Surgical Explantation of a CoreValve Aortic Bioprothesis
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.
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Published in: | The Annals of thoracic surgery Vol. 103; no. 6; pp. e565 - e566 |
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Main Authors: | , , , , , |
Format: | Journal Article |
Language: | English |
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Netherlands
Elsevier Inc
01-06-2017
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Summary: | 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. |
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ISSN: | 0003-4975 1552-6259 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2017.01.058 |