Balloon aortic valvuloplasty in patients with low cardiac output and predictors of high surgical risk

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Aortic Valve Replacement, Balloon Aortic Valvuloplasty

Abstract

Introduction: Clinical Practice guidelines state that when making decisions about aortic stenosis we should ask ourselves the following questions: What is the severity of the valve disease, do the expected benefits outweigh the risks, what are the local resources, what is the patient's life expectancy and expected quality of life?  These questions, which involve a scientific and ethical medical judgement, have been posed to us in relation to the patient presented.

Aim: To explain whether balloon aortic valvuloplasty could be a safe, simple and effective therapeutic alternative in a patient with severe aortic stenosis, calcified by bicuspid aortic valve, multi-organ damage (severe deterioration of biventricular function, severe pulmonary arterial hypertension, liver damage) and previous triple aortocoronary bypass surgery.

Case report: 54 year old male, with a history of cordectomy at the age of 9 years for aortic coarctation. Coronary revascularisation with triple graft in 2014, complicated by Type 5 myocardial infarction. Admitted with congestive heart failure and severely reduced biventricular ejection fraction due to severe aortic stenosis in a bicuspid aortic valve.

Discussion: Patient at high surgical risk for surgical reintervention, due to: Previous coronary surgery, multi-organ damage and severe biventricular dysfunction.

Result: Given the haemodynamic instability, the impossibility of performing a contrasted CT scan with a view to future percutaneous aortic valve replacement, with no availability at that time, balloon aortic valvuloplasty was a successful procedure with no complications.

Conclusion: Balloon aortic valvuloplasty in the clinical context that precludes percutaneous aortic valve replacement. It was a simple, safe and effective procedure.

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2024-05-21

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Echarte Martínez JC, Alfonso Rodríguez E, Rodríguez Blanco S, Nafe Abi-Rezk M, Castro Arca AM, Blanco Pérez Y. Balloon aortic valvuloplasty in patients with low cardiac output and predictors of high surgical risk. Rev Cubana Inv Bioméd [Internet]. 2024 May 21 [cited 2025 Jul. 19];43. Available from: https://revibiomedica.sld.cu/index.php/ibi/article/view/2358

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