Early calcific degeneration of a CoreValve transcatheter aortic bioprosthesis

Abstract

A 74-year-old man, one of the first few patients in the world to undergo transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) with the porcine CoreValve bioprosthesis presented with dyspnoea after 5 years. Echocardiogram and cardiac catheterization, respectively, revealed and confirmed bioprosthetic degenerative restenosis. The …