Valve Replacement
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Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve Implantation
Pure native pulmonary valve stenosis can usually be successfully treated with percutaneous balloon valvuloplasty.6 However, stenotic lesions...
Concomitant mitral valve surgery with aortic valve replacement: a 21-year experience with a single mechanical prosthesis
Methods Three hundred and sixteen patients underwent double valve replacement (DVR) (n = 273) or AVR+MVrep (n = 43), in the period 1977 to 1997....
Transcatheter Mitral Valve Repair - Challenges and Opportunities
Is There a Need for New Mitral Valve Treatment Solutions?The need for less invasive solutions to treat mitral regurgitation arises from a recent...
Percutaneous Implantation of Aortic Valve Prostheses in Patients with Calcific Aortic Stenosis - Technical Advances
To date, two models of percutaneous aortic valve prosthesis have been used in investigational studies in elderly patients with excessive...
Transcatheter Heart Valve Replacement and Repair - A Review of the Current State of Affairs
The predominant experience in percutaneous valvular intervention is the replacement of the pulmonary and aortic valves, though only phase I trials...
