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CASE REPORT article
Front. Cardiovasc. Med.
Sec. Structural Interventional Cardiology
Volume 12 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fcvm.2025.1506887
This article is part of the Research Topic Case Reports in Structural Interventional Cardiology: 2024 View all 6 articles
TRANSCATHETER VALVE IMPLANTATION IN A 13-YEAR OLD TEENAGER WITH CRITICAL AORTIC STENOSIS AND SINGLETON-MERTEN SYNDROME
Provisionally accepted
Aleksei Prokhorikhin *
Tatyana Pervunina 
Olga Irtyuga Tatyana Vershinina Mary Babakekhyan 
Anna Lyapunova 
Anna Kostareva Dmitry Zubarev Artem Gorbatykh Elena Vasichkina Evgeny Shlyakhto - Almazov National Medical Research Centre, Saint Petersburg, Russia
This article presents a rare case of transcatheter aortic valve implantation(TAVI) in a critically ill teenager with a Singleton-Merten syndrome. The procedure was successful, and the patient was discharged home without complication. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report combining disease, age and TAVI
Keywords: TAVR, Singleton-Merten syndrome (SMS), Teenager, Clinical case, Aortic stenosis (AS)
Received: 06 Oct 2024; Accepted: 31 Mar 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Prokhorikhin, Pervunina, Irtyuga, Vershinina, Babakekhyan, Lyapunova, Kostareva, Zubarev, Gorbatykh, Vasichkina and Shlyakhto. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Aleksei Prokhorikhin, Almazov National Medical Research Centre, Saint Petersburg, Russia
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