Successful valve-in-valve transcatheter intervention to treat severe stenosis of a 38-year-old tricuspid bioprosthesis

Echocardiography. 2024 Apr;41(4):e15804. doi: 10.1111/echo.15804.

Abstract

A 60-year-old man presented with breathlessness. Nearly four decades previously, he had required three operations for Staphylococcus aureus infective endocarditis of the tricuspid valve and had received a bioprosthetic valve. He had critical tricuspid bioprosthesis stenosis which was treated successfully by valve-in-valve transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement using a balloon-expandable transcatheter heart valve. One year after intervention, the patient is well with no tricuspid valve stenosis or regurgitation.

Keywords: bioprosthetic heart valve; transcatheter valve intervention; tricuspid stenosis; valve‐in‐valve transcatheter valve replacement.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Bioprosthesis* / adverse effects
  • Constriction, Pathologic
  • Endocarditis, Bacterial* / diagnostic imaging
  • Endocarditis, Bacterial* / surgery
  • Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation*
  • Heart Valve Prosthesis* / adverse effects
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Prosthesis Design
  • Prosthesis Failure
  • Treatment Outcome
  • Tricuspid Valve / diagnostic imaging
  • Tricuspid Valve / surgery
  • Tricuspid Valve Stenosis* / diagnostic imaging
  • Tricuspid Valve Stenosis* / surgery