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Transcatheter aortic valve implantation in moderate bicuspid aortic valve disease in a patient with end-stage dilated cardiomyopathy – bridge to heart transplantation
- First Department of Cardiology, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
- Department of Cardiac Surgery, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
- Department of Cardiac Surgery and Transplantology, Silesian Center for Heart Diseases, Faculty of Medicine in Zabrze, Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland
- Department of Cardiology and Structural Heart Diseases, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
Adv Interv Cardiol 2021; 17, 4 (66): 427–428
Online publish date: 2021/11/17
A 64-year-old patient with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) and chronic heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF), with an implanted cardioverter-defibrillator, was admitted to the cardiology unit due to consecutive acute heart failure (HF) decompensation. Regardless of potent optimal pharmacotherapy, at admission, the patient was in NYHA class 4.
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