First in Greece Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation using the CoreValve Evolut-R Retrievable and Repositionable Bioprosthesis with the InLine Sheath and the EnVeo Loading Guiding Catheter: A Major Advantage for SmallDiameter Access Vessels

Manolis Vavuranakis; Dimitrios A Vrachatis; Gerasimos Siasos; Sophia Vaina; Konstantinos Filis; Fragiska Sigala; Konstantinos Kalogeras; Angelos-Michail Kolokathis; Carmen Moldovan; Theodore G Papaioannou; Constantina Aggeli; Dimitrios Tousoulis

First in Greece Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation using the CoreValve Evolut-R Retrievable and Repositionable Bioprosthesis with the InLine Sheath and the EnVeo Loading Guiding Catheter: A Major Advantage for SmallDiameter Access Vessels

Hellenic J Cardiol. 2015 Jul-Aug;56(4):338-43.

Authors

Manolis Vavuranakis¹, Dimitrios A Vrachatis, Gerasimos Siasos, Sophia Vaina, Konstantinos Filis, Fragiska Sigala, Konstantinos Kalogeras, Angelos-Michail Kolokathis, Carmen Moldovan, Theodore G Papaioannou, Constantina Aggeli, Dimitrios Tousoulis

Affiliation

¹ First Department of Cardiology, Vascular Surgery Division, Hippokration Hospital, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.

PMID: 26233775

Abstract

We report the first TAVI procedure in Greece to use the CoreValve Evolut-R (23 mm profile) bioprosthesis with the InLine sheath and the EnVeo loading guiding catheter in a patient with small anatomical characteristics (aortic annulus, access vessel) and severe comorbidities. The procedure was successfully conducted under general anesthesia through a surgically prepared, extensively calcified, left femoral artery.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Aged
Aortic Valve Stenosis / surgery*
Cardiac Catheterization / instrumentation*
Cardiac Catheterization / methods*
Comorbidity
Female
Femoral Artery / pathology
Femoral Artery / surgery
Greece
Humans
Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement / instrumentation*
Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement / methods*
Treatment Outcome