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Stylianos A Pyxaras1, Sara Santangelo1, Andrea Perkan1, Giancarlo Vitrella1, Serena Rakar1, Erica Della Grazia1, Alessandro Salvi1, Gianfranco Sinagra1.
Abstract
Aortic valve stenosis associated with angiodysplasia (Heyde's syndrome) and consequent anemia had previously been reported to benefit from surgical aortic valve replacement. In this clinical case an 89-year-old patient with chronic angiodysplasia-derived anemia, characterized by acute phases of active gastrointestinal bleeding experienced a normalization of hemoglobin values after a trans-catheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) of a self-expandable aortic valve prosthesis (CoreValve, Medtronic Inc., Minneapolis, MN, USA). This is the first, to our knowledge, reported clinical case of remission of angiodysplasia-derived anemia after TAVI.Entities:
Keywords: Angiodysplasia; Transcatheter aortic valve implantation
Year: 2012 PMID: 30532921 PMCID: PMC6265490 DOI: 10.1016/j.jccase.2011.10.002
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Cardiol Cases ISSN: 1878-5409