Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement of a Bicuspid Aortic Valve in a Heart Transplant Recipient

Robert Beale; Charles Beale, MD; David DeNofrio, MD; Paul Gordon, MD; Daniel Levine, MD; Neel Sodha, MD; Rayan Yousefzai, MD; Eirini Apostolidou, MD, MSc

JACC: Case Reports (May 2020)

Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement of a Bicuspid Aortic Valve in a Heart Transplant Recipient

Robert Beale,
Charles Beale, MD,
David DeNofrio, MD,
Paul Gordon, MD,
Daniel Levine, MD,
Neel Sodha, MD,
Rayan Yousefzai, MD,
Eirini Apostolidou, MD, MSc

Affiliations

Robert Beale: Downstate School of Medicine, Brooklyn, New York
Charles Beale, MD: Department of Cardiology and Cardiothoracic Surgery, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
David DeNofrio, MD: Department of Cardiology, Tuft’s Medical Center, Tufts School of Medicine, Boston Massachusetts
Paul Gordon, MD: Department of Cardiology and Cardiothoracic Surgery, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Daniel Levine, MD: Department of Cardiology and Cardiothoracic Surgery, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Neel Sodha, MD: Department of Cardiology and Cardiothoracic Surgery, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Rayan Yousefzai, MD: Department of Cardiology and Cardiothoracic Surgery, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Eirini Apostolidou, MD, MSc: Department of Cardiology and Cardiothoracic Surgery, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island; Address for correspondence: Dr. Eirini Apostolidou, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, 593 Eddy Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02903.

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 2, no. 5
pp. 716 – 720

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Patients with heart transplants who present with severe aortic stenosis may be deemed high-risk surgical candidates due to immunosuppression and multiple comorbid conditions. Appropriately selected patients may be successfully treated with transcatheter aortic valve replacement. (Level of Difficulty: Advanced.)

Published in JACC: Case Reports

ISSN: 2666-0849 (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Specialties of internal medicine: Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system
Website: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/jacc-case-reports

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