Transcatheter aortic valve replacement in rheumatic aortic stenosis

CASE REPORT

Year : 2018 \| Volume : 1 \| Issue : 2 \| Page : 158-160

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement in rheumatic aortic stenosis Sengottuvelu Gunasekaran¹, Muthukumaran Chinnasamy Sivaprakasam², Vijayashankar Sadhasivam³, Ganapathy C Arumugam⁴, Vinodh Kumar PaulPandi¹ ¹ Department of Cardiology, Apollo Hospitals, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India ² Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Apollo Hospitals, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India ³ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Apollo Hospitals, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India ⁴ Department of Anaesthesia, Apollo Hospitals, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India Correspondence Address: Dr. Sengottuvelu Gunasekaran Department of Cardiology, Apollo Hospitals, Greams Road, Chennai 600006, Tamil Nadu India Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None DOI: 10.4103/IHJI.IHJI_21_18

Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is a rapidly evolving therapeutic option for patients with severe aortic stenosis (AS) who are at a high risk for surgery or inoperable. The data on the use of TAVI in rheumatic AS are not widely available and have not been reported from India. We present a case report of TAVI in rheumatic AS and prior mitral valve replacement with multiple comorbidities.



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