Iliac "paving & cracking" technique for transcatheter aortic valve implantation.

Enrico GallittoTullio PalmeriniFrancesco SaiaMauro Gargiulo

Published in: Catheterization and cardiovascular interventions : official journal of the Society for Cardiac Angiography & Interventions (2022)

Challenging femoral/iliac access (CA) can lead to vascular complications which can hamper the clinical benefit of transfemoral (TF) transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI). In this sense, iliac artery rupture is a severe complication associated with significant morbidity and mortality. We report a case of TF-TAVI managed with the "paving and cracking technique" to overcome CA.

Keyphrases

transcatheter aortic valve implantation
aortic valve replacement
aortic valve
endovascular treatment
aortic stenosis
transcatheter aortic valve replacement
ejection fraction
risk factors
protein kinase
early onset
heart failure
left ventricular
coronary artery disease