Key result
Transcaval access provides a promising fully percutaneous alternative for TAVI when conventional access is unsuitable.
Provides step-by-step guidance for planning and executing transcaval access and closure during TAVI in patients lacking conventional access options.
May offer a percutaneous TAVI option when conventional access is unavailable; leaves open the need for prospective validation before wider use.
Transcaval, or caval-aortic, access is a promising approach for fully percutaneous transcatheter aortic valve implantation in patients without good conventional access options. This tutorial review provides step-by-step guidance to planning and executing the procedure, along with approaches to remedy complications.
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Lederman et al. (2015) studied this question. Transcaval access provides a promising fully percutaneous alternative for transcatheter aortic valve implantation in patients without good conventional access options.
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