Successful Treatment of Severe Aortic Stenosis With Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation in a Centenarian Patient

Lee, Yong Joon; Kim, Young Ju; Lee, Jung Hee; Ko, Young Guk; Shin, Sanghoon; Hong, Geuru; Lee, Sak; Chang, Byung Chul; Shim, Jae Kwang; Kwak, Young Ran; Hong, Myeong Ki

doi:2014.18.1.44

Ann Geriatr Med Res > Volume 18(1); 2014 > Article

Case Report

Journal of the Korean Geriatrics Society 2014;18(1):44-47.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4235/jkgs.2014.18.1.44 Published online March 31, 2014.

Successful Treatment of Severe Aortic Stenosis With Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation in a Centenarian Patient

Yong Joon Lee, Young Ju Kim, Jung Hee Lee, Young Guk Ko, Sanghoon Shin, Geuru Hong, Sak Lee, Byung Chul Chang, Jae Kwang Shim, Young Ran Kwak, Myeong Ki Hong

¹Division of Cardiology, Severance Cardiovascular Hospital, Yonsei University Health System, Seoul, Korea. mkhong61@yuhs.ac
²Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Severance Cardiovascular Hospital, Yonsei University Health System, Seoul, Korea.
³Division of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Severance Cardiovascular Hospital, Yonsei University Health System, Seoul, Korea.

Successful Treatment of Severe Aortic Stenosis With Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation in a Centenarian Patient

Yong-Joon Lee, MD

Abstract

Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is a less invasive procedure to treat severe aortic valve stenosis than conventional surgical aortic valve replacement. Furthermore, TAVI has shown similar clinical outcomes as surgical treatment with less mortality and morbidities in elderly patients at high risk for conventional surgery. In this report, we describe case of successful TAVI using a CoreValve in a 103-year-old patient with symptomatic severe aortic valve stenosis.

Key Words: Aortic valve stenosis, Catheters, Heart valve prosthesis, Prosthesis implantation