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CASE REPORT article

Front. Cardiovasc. Med.
Sec. Structural Interventional Cardiology
Volume 12 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fcvm.2025.1529523
This article is part of the Research Topic Case Reports in Structural Interventional Cardiology: 2024 View all 3 articles

Case Report: Leaflet Thrombosis After Transcatheter Valve-in-Valve Aortic Valve Replacement in Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis

Provisionally accepted
Yuhan Zhou Yuhan Zhou 1Bo Fu Bo Fu 2Nan Jiang Nan Jiang 2Zhigang Guo Zhigang Guo 2*
  • 1 Clinical School of Thoracic, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, Tianjin Municipality, China
  • 2 Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Tianjin Chest Hospital, Tianjin, China

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    A 70-year-old female patient with a history of bioprosthetic aortic valve replacement and coronary artery bypass graft presented with bioprosthetic valve failure secondary to prosthetic valve endocarditis. The patient was deemed unsuitable for surgery by the heart team and underwent transcatheter aortic valve-in-valve replacement, resulting in early death due to myocardial infarction and acute heart failure with computed tomography revealing subclinical leaflet thrombosis. This case highlights the importance of post operative anticoagulation therapy.

    Keywords: case report, Transcatheter aortic valve replacement, Valve-in-valve, leaflet thrombosis, Myocardial Infarction

    Received: 17 Nov 2024; Accepted: 16 Jan 2025.

    Copyright: © 2025 Zhou, Fu, Jiang and Guo. 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: Zhigang Guo, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Tianjin Chest Hospital, Tianjin, China

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