An 81-year-old male patient was admitted to Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital due to chest distress and shortness of breath after activity for half a year. Examination after admission revealed severe aortic insufficiency, tricuspid aortic valve and extremely horizontal aorta with an aortic root angulation of 99°. The Society of Thoracic Surgeons score was 7%. And taking the strong demand of the patient and his family into consideration, we decided to perform transapical transcatheter aortic valve replacement after multidisciplinary evaluation. The procedure was successfully performed by means of low deployment land zone and traction of pre-exist Prolene suture. Three-month follow-up confirmed the normal function of aortic prosthetic valve without residual regurgitation. This case provides a reference for the interventional treatment in patients with extremely horizontal aorta.
Citation: WEI Peijian, LIU Jian, ZHUANG Weitao, MA Jiexu, CHEN Zhao, LIU Yanjun, TAN Tong, WU Hongxiang, XIE Nianjin, CHEN Jimei, GUO Huiming. Transapical transcatheter aortic valve replacement for aortic regurgitation in a patient with extremely horizontal aorta. Chinese Journal of Clinical Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 2022, 29(5): 662-666. doi: 10.7507/1007-4848.202105009 Copy