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CASE REPORT article

Front. Cardiovasc. Med.

Sec. Heart Valve Disease

Volume 12 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fcvm.2025.1535890

This article is part of the Research Topic Lifetime Management for Aortic Stenosis: What Should We Consider? View all articles

Case report: The second valve drag technique for managing acute total obstruction of the right coronary artery during transcatheter aortic valve replacement

Provisionally accepted
Yanbin Song Yanbin Song 1Xiaochun Zhang Xiaochun Zhang 2Da-xin Zhou Da-xin Zhou 2Wenzhi Pan Wenzhi Pan 2*
  • 1 Department of Cardiology, Wujin Hospital Affiliated with Jiangsu Universit;the Wujin Clinical College of Xuzhou Medical University, Changzhou, China
  • 2 Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, Shanghai Municipality, China

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    AbstractWe present a rare yet critical complication due to valve dislocation during transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR). The implementation of novel and successful interventional treatment resulted in rapid relief of coronary obstruction.

    Keywords: Transcatheter aortic valve replacement, coronary obstruction, Valve dislocation, drag technique, bicuspid aortic valve.

    Received: 28 Nov 2024; Accepted: 19 Feb 2025.

    Copyright: © 2025 Song, Zhang, Zhou and Pan. 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: Wenzhi Pan, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200032, Shanghai Municipality, China

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