Journal:
:archives of cardiovascular imaging
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ibrahim akin department of internal medicine i, medical faculty mannheim, university heidelberg, mannheim, germany; department of internal medicine i, medical faculty mannheim, university of heidelberg, theodor-kutzerufer 1-3, 68167 mannheim, germany. tel/fax: +49-6213835229
christoph a. nienaber heart center rostock, department of internal medicine i, university hospital rostock, rostock school of medicine, rostock, germany
transcatheteraortic valve implantation, first introduced in 2002, has been established as an alternative modality for patients deemed not suitable for open-heart surgery. the anatomical vicinity of the atrioventricular node and the his bundle to the non-coronary and rightcoronary aortic cusps predisposes patients to conduction abnormalities in case of severe calcification or mechanical trauma d...