Publications by authors named "Mathias Kullmer"
Objectives: To describe and to validate a new technique for crossing stenotic aortic valves (AV).
Background: Current techniques for crossing the AV may be time-consuming and hazardous.
Methods: One hundred consecutive patients with severe aortic stenosis treated by transfemoral TAVI were prospectively selected to have an initial attempt of 5 min to cross the AV with a novel pigtail/J-wire technique before switching to the conventional Amplatz/straight wire approach.
Article Synopsis
- Doctors are using a new method called valve-in-valve (VinV) to help patients with heart valve problems, especially when surgery is risky.
- In a study of 514 patients, they compared two types of heart valves, SAPIEN XT and SAPIEN 3, to see how well they worked and if they caused any issues.
- The results showed that both types of valves were mostly safe, but there were some concerns about the valves not opening enough, especially in smaller patients' valves and when the new valve was placed too deep.
We report on a percutaneous transcatheter valve-in-valve implantation (Edwards-SAPIEN-XT) (Edwards Lifesciences Corp., One Edwards Way Irvine, CA 92614) in a 50-year-old i.v.
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