A rare complication of transaortic valve implantation: Free-floating nose cone
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Halil Lutfi Kisacik; Derya Tok; Kumral Çağlı
- Source
- Turk Kardiyoloji Dernegi Arsivi-Archives of the Turkish Society of Cardiology.
- Subject
- Aortic valve disease
medicine.medical_specialty
Transcatheter aortic
business.industry
medicine.medical_treatment
Nose cone
Surgery
Catheter
Valve replacement
medicine
Catheter removal
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
business
Complication
- Language
- ISSN
- 1016-5169
Presently described is a case in which the tip of the delivery catheter system (nose cone) has been broken during catheter removal after valve deployment in a femoral transcatheter aortic valve replacement procedure and the successful management of this rare complication.