scholarly journals Abdominal aorta tortuosity on computed tomography identifies patients at risk of complications during transfemoral transcatheter aortic valve replacement

2020 ◽  
Vol 113 (3) ◽  
pp. 159-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marine Kinnel ◽  
Laurent Faroux ◽  
Aurélien Villecourt ◽  
Sophie Tassan-Mangina ◽  
Virginie Heroguelle ◽  
...  
2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ambarish Gopal ◽  
Nathalia Ribeiro ◽  
John J Squiers ◽  
Elizabeth M Holper ◽  
Michael Black ◽  
...  

A major concern regarding transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is leaflet thrombosis. Four-dimensional computed tomography (4D-CT) is the preferred imaging modality to evaluate patients with suspected valve thrombosis. To date, the abnormal findings visualized by 4D-CT suggestive of leaflet thrombosis have lacked pathologic confirmation from a surgically explanted valve in a surviving patient. Herein, we provide pathologic confirmation of thrombus formation following surgical explantation of a thrombosed TAVR prosthesis that was initially identified by 4D-CT. 


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