Practical Approach to Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation and Bioprosthetic Valve Fracture in a Failed Bioprosthetic Surgical Valve

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Ex vivo examples of THVs mounted in surgical bioprostheses. (a) Evolut R 23 mm THV in an Epic 21 mm surgical valve. (b) Sapien 23 mm THV mounted in a Perimount Magna Ease 21 mm surgical valve. (c) Portico 23 mm THV mounted in a Trifecta 21 mm valve with externally mounted leaflets. (d) ACURATE neo S mounted in Epic 25 mm. Images were obtained from the valve-in-valve aortic app (by UBQO and Dr. Vinayak Bapat), reproduced with permission.

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