Ventral calcification in the common femoral artery: A risk factor for major transcatheter aortic valve intervention access site complications.
Dawid Leander StaudacherKatrin BraxmeierPeter StachonIngo HilgendorfChristopher SchlettManfred ZehenderConstantin von Zur MühlenChristoph BodeTimo HeidtPublished in: Catheterization and cardiovascular interventions : official journal of the Society for Cardiac Angiography & Interventions (2021)
Transfemoral TAVI harbors a considerable risk for vascular access site complications especially if vessel diameter is too small to comfortably host the sheath diameter at the area of the femoral bifurcation. For preprocedural TAVI planning and risk assessment, location of calcification, especially if located ventrally, seems to be more relevant than consideration of overall calcification alone.
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