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A buddy wire and balloon technique enabled accurate delivery of a balloon-expandable aortic valve prosthesis via the transfemoral route in a patient with severe aortic stenosis.
Case Report (n=1)
The buddy wire and balloon technique can facilitate the delivery of bulky percutaneous aortic valve devices through stenotic aortic valves.
Percutaneous aortic valve replacement is performed with increasing frequency in patients with severe aortic stenosis at prohibitive surgical risk. Currently available devices are however in their early development stage, and are thus quite bulky with a large profile, with ensuing difficulties in delivery of the device through a stenotic aortic valve. We report hereby a case in which we employed a buddy wire and balloon technique as a "shoehorn" to enable accurate delivery of a balloon-expandable aortic valve prosthesis from the transfemoral route.
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Sheiban et al. (2009) conducted a case report in Severe aortic stenosis (n=1). Buddy wire and balloon technique was evaluated on Accurate delivery of a balloon-expandable aortic valve prosthesis. A buddy wire and balloon technique enabled accurate delivery of a balloon-expandable aortic valve prosthesis via the transfemoral route in a patient with severe aortic stenosis.
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