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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2009;138:260
© 2009 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Letter to the Editor

Percutaneous aortic valve implantation: What does oversizing mean?

Rachid Zegdi, MD, PhDa,b, Paul Achouh, MD, PhDb, Didier Blanchard, MDc, Antoine Lafont, MD, PhDa,c, Jean-Noël Fabiani, MDa,b

a Université René Descartes, Paris V, France
b Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, AP-HP, Service de Chirurgie Cardiovasculaire Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
c Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, AP-HP, Service de Cardiologie Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

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To the Editor:

We read with interest the recent article by Litzler and colleagues1Go in the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. The authors reported their first case of emergency surgical aortic valve replacement for severe acute aortic regurgitation after retrograde transfemoral Cribier-Edwards valve implantation.

We would like to comment on this instructive case report and ask for some clarifications:

When valved stent implantation is planned in a patient, accurate pre-procedural determination of the aortic annulus size is of crucial importance. A prosthesis–aortic annulus mismatch may . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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