Percutaneous Aortic Balloon Valvuloplasty and Intracardiac Adrenaline in Electromechanical Dissociation as Bridge to Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation

Percutaneous Aortic Balloon Valvuloplasty and Intracardiac Adrenaline in Electromechanical Dissociation as Bridge to Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation

This report describes an emergent balloon aortic valvuloplasty (BAV) procedure performed under cardiopulmonary resuscitation in a 79-year-old man with severe symptomatic aortic stenosis (mean gradient 78 mm Hg, valve area 0.71 cm2, and left ventricular ejection fraction 40%) awaiting surgery and who...

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Main Authors: Chaara, Jawad, Meier, Pascal, Ellenberger, Christophe, Gasche, Yvan, Bendjelid, Karim, Noble, Stephane, Roffi, Marco
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Health 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4504577/

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