Publication Date
10-1-2015
Journal
The Texas Heart Journal
DOI
10.14503/THIJ-14-4239
PMID
26504437
Publication Date(s)
October 2015
Language
English
PMCID
PMC4591883
PubMedCentral® Posted Date
10-1-2015
PubMedCentral® Full Text Version
Post-Print
Published Open-Access
yes
Keywords
Aortic regurgitation, aortic valve, congestive heart failure, echocardiography, transesophageal, heart valve prosthesis, percutaneous closure, treatment outcome
Copyright
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Abstract
New interventional techniques have made transcatheter closure of aortic paravalvular leaks a viable therapeutic option to treat the sequelae of these defects, including congestive heart failure and hemolysis. We report the transcatheter closure of an aortic paravalvular leak via a combined retrograde/antegrade approach. This was necessary because of difficulty in crossing the defect with a sheath from the retrograde approach. This technique might be useful in application to other difficult structural heart interventions. To our knowledge, this is the first report of a treated paravalvular leak around a Mitroflow(®) Aortic Pericardial Heart Valve.