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Review
. 2010 May 18;182(8):791-5.
doi: 10.1503/cmaj.080064. Epub 2010 Mar 8.

Transcatheter heart-valve replacement: update

Michael W A Chu  1 , Michael A Borger, Friedrich W Mohr, Thomas Walther
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Review

Transcatheter heart-valve replacement: update

Michael W A Chu et al. CMAJ. .
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Figure 1
Figure 1
(A) The balloon-expandable SAPIEN (Edwards Lifesciences) transcatheter prosthesis for aortic valve implantation. (B) The self-expanding CoreValve (Medtronic) transcatheter prosthesis stent for aortic valve implantation. (C) The balloon-expandable Melody (Medtronic) prosthesis for pulmonic valve implantation in congenital heart disease.
Figure 2
Figure 2
(A) Balloon aortic valvuloplasty. (B) Positioning of the undeployed transcatheter valve prosthesis within the aortic annulus. (C) Intraoperative aortography confirming good implantation of the device, without coronary obstruction or paravalvular leak.
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