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Severe Arterial Tortuosity in an Asymptomatic Infant With Coarctation

We present images of an asymptomatic 14-month-old girl in whom a heart murmur was noted incidentally at 9 months of age during a mild bronchiolitic illness. She is the second-born child to ...
revespcardiol

Arterial tortuosity syndrome: a late and unexpected diagnosis and description of a novel likely pathogenic mutation

We describe a male patient born in June 1965. His parents are first cousins, he is their second and last child, and he has no descendants. At the age of 33 years, the patient experienced palpitations, ...
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Use of Double Stiff Wire Allows Successful Transfemoral Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation Through Extreme Thoracic Aorta Tortuosity

An 80-year-old man affected by symptomatic (New York Heart Association III) aortic stenosis was referred to our center. Transthoracic echocardiogram showed low-flow low-gradient aortic stenosis (mean ...
Frontiers

Transcarotid transcatheter aortic valve replacement combined with percutaneous coronary intervention for severe aortic stenosis with coronary artery disease in a tortuous ...

Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) is currently the preferred treatment option not only for high-surgical-risk patients with severe aortic stenosis (AS) but also increasingly for those with ...
The New Indian Express

In a first, twisted aorta successfully treated in Bengaluru

BENGALURU: A 64-year-old woman who was suffering from tortuous aorta and a history of failed valve replacement was successfully treated with Hybrid TAVR (Transcatheter aortic valve replacement) at ...