Before procedure |
A 90-year-old patient with dyspnoea on exertion was found to have severe aortic stenosis with a peak trans-valvular jet velocity of 4.1 m/s. Considering her age, frailty and the risk for surgical aortic valve replacement, she was referred for transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) |
0:00 |
General anaesthesia was initiated for TAVI |
00:45 |
Temporary pacemaker was placed |
01:50 |
First attempt at advancing the expandable sheath from left femoral artery failed, and the wire was exchanged to Lunderquist, without success |
02:02 |
A buddy wire was added, but the expandable sheath did not advance |
02:17 |
Balloon angioplasty was performed at the abdominal aorta, and the sheath advanced |
02:29 |
Heparin added, and activated clotting time (ACT) was 307 s |
02:50 |
A guidewire was placed in the left coronary artery to prevent obstruction |
02:54 |
ACT was 298 s. The balloon aortic valvuloplasty was applied under rapid pacing |
03:09 |
Delivery system was advanced |
Transoesophageal echography (TOE) showed the sudden appearance of a high-echoic mass attached to the valve |
03:18 |
The transcatheter heart valve (THV) was implanted under rapid pacing |
03:20 |
The intracardiac mass grew in length and moved in and out of the left ventricle |
03:29 |
The mass detached from the THV and flowed up the ascending aorta, disappearing from the TOE screen |
03:40 |
ACT was 347 s |
04:07 |
Cerebral angiography was performed, and no major cerebral trunk was occluded |
04:34 |
The sheaths were extracted, and the procedure was over |
Post- procedure |
The patient presented with hemianopsia and ataxia. Acute cerebral infarction was found in magnetic resonance imaging. After rehabilitation, the patient was able to walk independently with score 3 on the modified Rankins scale |