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SUBMITTER: Yamashita K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7890281 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yamashita Kizuku K Fukushima Satsuki S Shimahara Yusuke Y Yamasaki Takuma T Matsumoto Yorihiko Y Kawamoto Naonori N Tadokoro Naoki N Kakuta Takashi T Hamatani Yasuhiro Y Okada Atsushi A Takahama Hiroyuki H Amaki Makoto M Hasegawa Takuya T Kanzaki Hideaki H Izumi Chisato C Yasuda Satoshi S Kobayashi Junjiro J Fujita Tomoyuki T
Circulation reports 20190119 2
<b><i>Background:</i> </b> The valve-in-valve (VIV) procedure is being increasingly performed in high-risk patients with a degenerated bioprosthesis in an aortic position in Western countries. The early safety and efficacy of the VIV procedure, however, remain unclear in Japanese patients with a small aortic annulus. We present the protocol for a study designed to evaluate the early safety and efficacy of the VIV procedure in the aortic position in Japanese patients. <b><i>Methods and Results:</ ...[more]