Halapas Antonios, Chrissocheris Michael, Pattakos Gregory, Kourkoveli Panagiota, Papadopoulos Kostas, Vardas Panos, Spargias Kostas
Department of Transcatheter Heart Valves, Hygeia Hospital, Athens, Greece.
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Hygeia Hospital, Athens, Greece.
AsiaIntervention. 2019 Jul 20;5(2):149-152. doi: 10.4244/AIJ-D-18-00058. eCollection 2019 Jul.
Treatment of a failing aortic bioprosthesis by transcatheter valve-in-valve (ViV) therapy has become an alternative to redo surgery. However, the ViV technique may be less effective in small surgical valves because of patient/prosthesis mismatch (PPM). Here we will discuss the bioprosthetic valve fracture/remodelling (BVF) procedure and the most important issues regarding this promising new technique.