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- Title
Surgical treatment for double-valve destruction after balloon aortic valvuloplasty in a patient with porcelain aorta.
- Authors
Makoto Hashimoto; Toshihiro Fukui; Shuichiro Takanashi
- Abstract
We report a rare case of surgical treatment for double-valve destruction after balloon aortic valvuloplasty in a 90-year old female with severe aortic calcification. The patient underwent aortic balloon valvuloplasty for symptomatic aortic stenosis, resulting in severe aortic regurgitation because of injury to the right coronary cusp of the aortic valve and severe mitral regurgitation because of rupture of the chordae tendineae. She became haemodynamically unstable and required treatment with mechanical ventilation and assisted circulation. Urgent surgical treatment was planned. The patient's porcelain aorta increased the difficulty of surgery, but the procedure was carefully planned, and aortic valve replacement and mitral valve repair were performed successfully without major complications. The patient had a satisfactory postoperative course and was transferred to another hospital for rehabilitation on the 8th postoperative day.
- Subjects
PERCUTANEOUS balloon valvuloplasty; AORTIC diseases; HEART blood-vessel abnormalities; AORTIC valve insufficiency; MITRAL valve insufficiency; THERAPEUTICS
- Publication
European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, 2015, Vol 48, Issue 2, p329
- ISSN
1010-7940
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.1093/ejcts/ezu343