Transcatheter Mitral Valve-in-Valve Replacement

Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: A Review Article

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is a novel therapeutic intervention for the replacement of severely stenotic aortic valves in high-risk patients for standard surgical procedures. Since the initial PARTNER trial results, use of TAVR has been on the rise each year. New delivery methods and different valves have been developed and modified in order to promote the minimally invasive p...

Transcatheter mitral valve repair and replacement.

Right sided heart evaluation after successful mitral valve replacement.

Introduction: It is well-documented that right-sided heart dysfunction and significant tricuspid valve regurgitation (TVR) have adverse effects on patient outcomes after left-sided heart valve surgery. Therefore, the evaluation of right ventriclular (RV) function and TR severity in patients who had undergone mitral valve replacement (MVR), associated with/without concomitant su...

Failed valve-in-valve transcatheter mitral valve implantation.

A 73-year old man underwent trans-septal anterograde implantation of a 26-mm Sapien-XT valve (Edwards Lifesciences, CA, USA) to treat a degenerated 27-mm Carpentier-Edwards bioprosthesis. During the follow-up, the patient experienced severe haemolysis with moderate-to-severe inter-valvular leak, and fluoroscopy revealed possible incomplete apposition of the Sapien-XT (Fig. 1). Reoperation was p...

Transcatheter Mitral Valve Implantation

T he rationale for the development of a transcatheter mitral valve implantation (tMVI) procedure, either percutaneous or via minimally invasive surgery (MIS), arose from consideration of several key surgical concepts. First, mitral valve replacement is the most effective modality and the gold standard procedure for reliably reducing mitral regurgitation (MR). The efficacy and risks of mitral va...