Valve in Valve

ANTERIOR URETHRAL VALVE ASSOCIATED WITH POSTERIOR URETHRAL VALVE

A rare case of anterior urethral valve in association with posterior urethral valuve is reported. Clinical findings are discussed, and the available literature will be briefly reviewed.

Editorial Valve in Valve Another Milestone for Transcatheter Valve Therapy

The first mechanical heart valve prosthesis, designed by Dr Charles Hufnagel, was implanted to the descending aorta of a 30-year-old woman with severe aortic regurgitation in 1952.1 Eight years after the initial successful prosthetic valve implantation, Dr Harken sutured a prosthetic valve (Starr Edwards Valve) to the aortic annulus after removing the diseased native valve. During the ensuing y...

Failed valve-in-valve transcatheter mitral valve implantation.

A 73-year old man underwent trans-septal anterograde implantation of a 26-mm Sapien-XT valve (Edwards Lifesciences, CA, USA) to treat a degenerated 27-mm Carpentier-Edwards bioprosthesis. During the follow-up, the patient experienced severe haemolysis with moderate-to-severe inter-valvular leak, and fluoroscopy revealed possible incomplete apposition of the Sapien-XT (Fig. 1). Reoperation was p...

Percutaneous Tricuspid Valve Replacement Two Cases of Valve-in-Valve and Valve-in-Ring

* Corresponding Author: Steve Zhou, BS David Geffen School of Medicine University of California Los Angeles 885 Tiverton Drive, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA Tel: +1 650 796 1026; Fax: +1 310 825 9012; E-Mail: [email protected] Fax +1 203 785 3346 E-Mail: [email protected] http://structuralheartdisease.org/ © 2017 Journal of Structural Heart Disease Published by Science Int...

Valve in valve: another milestone for transcatheter valve therapy.