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Transfemoral TAVI was successfully performed without technical difficulty and yielded good clinical outcomes in two patients with failing aortic root homografts.
Transfemoral TAVI appears to be a technically feasible and successful approach for treating patients with failing aortic root homografts.
Supports feasibility in failing homografts; hypothesis-generating and requires larger studies before clinical adoption.
Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) for failing aortic root and valve homografts has been described primarily via a transapical approach. We report the successful treatment of two patients with failing homografts by transfemoral (TF) TAVI. In both cases, TF TAVI was accomplished without technical difficulty and with good clinical outcomes.
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Otalvaro et al. (2013) studied this question. Transfemoral TAVI was successfully performed without technical difficulty and yielded good clinical outcomes in two patients with failing aortic root homografts.
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