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Ann Thorac Surg 2009;87:347. doi:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.06.013
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Valve-in-a-Valve Implantation: A Word of Caution

Rachid Zegdi, MD, PhDa, Paul Achouh, MD, PhDa, Alain Berrebi, MDa, Jean-Noël Fabiani, MDa, Didier Blanchard, MDb, Antoine Lafont, MD, PhDb, Bernard Cholley, MD, PhDc, Rachid Zegdi, MD, PhDd, Antoine Lafont, MD, PhDd, Jean-Noël Fabiani, MDd

a Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Service de Chirurgie Cardiovasculaire, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, 20, rue Leblanc, Paris, 75908 France
b Service de Cardiologie, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, 20, rue Leblanc, Paris, 75908 France
c Département d'Anesthésie-Réanimation, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, 20, rue Leblanc, Paris, 75908 France
d Université René Descartes, Rue de l ‘école de medecine, Paris V, France

(Email: rzegdi@hotmail.com; rzegdi@hotmail.com).

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To the Editor:


Dr Zegdi discloses that he has a financial relationship with Cormove.

 

We read with interest the recent article of Walther and colleagues [1] in which the authors reported the case of an 82-year-old woman with a degenerated aortic, stented bioprosthesis. The patient benefited from a "valve-in-valve" implantation through a transapical approach. A 23-mm Edwards Sapien transcatheter heart valve was implanted inside a 21-mm Edwards Perimount conventional xenograft (Edwards Lifesciences, Irvine, CA). The procedure and the initial recovery were uneventful. The valve function was considered as good with no regurgitation and no residual stenosis.

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