Imaging for Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Variant 1: Preintervention planning for transcatheter aortic valve replacement at the aortic valve

Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: A Review Article

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is a novel therapeutic intervention for the replacement of severely stenotic aortic valves in high-risk patients for standard surgical procedures. Since the initial PARTNER trial results, use of TAVR has been on the rise each year. New delivery methods and different valves have been developed and modified in order to promote the minimally invasive p...

Role of Advanced Cardiac Imaging in Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Planning

INTRODUCTION The fast development of transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) would not have possible without the invaluable collaboration of multimodal cardiac imaging, particularly transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) and computerized axial tomography (CT scan). Given the elevated morbimortality associated with severe aortic stenosis (AS) presenting high surgical risk, an adequate sele...

High-risk Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting and Mitral Valve Replacement in a HIV Positive Patient

Certain subsets of high-risk mitral valve patients are not suitable candidates for transcatheter therapies. The objective of this report is to present a young patient with combined mitral valve and coronary artery disease to illustrate these challenges.In this report, we present a 47-year-old man with longstanding HIV infection who was referred with severe mitral regurgitation (MR) and profound...

Aortic root imaging in the era of transcatheter aortic valve implantation/transcatheter aortic valve replacement.

SCCT expert consensus document on computed tomography imaging before transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI)/transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR).

Computed tomography (CT) plays an important role in the workup of patients who are candidates for implantation of a catheter-based aortic valve, a procedure referred to as transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) or transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR). Contrast-enhanced CT imaging provides information on the suitability of the peripheral access vessels to accommodate the relativ...