Emmanouil Chourdakis Author
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Endovascular stent graft, Heart failure, health care , Cardiovascular function
Emmanouil Chourdakis Krankenhaus der Barmherzigen Br
Emmanouil Chourdakis,
Department of cardiology, Krankenhaus der Barmherzigen Brüder, Nordallee 1, Trier, Germany, his skills involues Echocardiography Electrocardiography Heart Failure Atrial Fibrillation Clinical Cardiology. Significant Iatrogenic High Flow AV-Communication after MitraClip Treated with Endovascular Covered Stent.
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Author(s): Emmanouil Chourdakis*, Ioanna Koniari, Karl Eugen Hauptmann, Kounis Nikolaos and George Hahalis
The percutaneous mitral valve repair therapy (MitraClip) constitutes an alternative for high peri- operative risk patients with severe symptomatic mitral regurgitation. Various complications, especially access -related have been described post mitraclip procedure as iatrogenic femoral arteriovenous fistulas with an incidence approximately of 0.1-1.5% following cardiac catheterization. We report a case of a 84-year-old male with a high flow AVcommunication at the puncture site after mitral clip procedure accompanied with decompensated heart failure symptoms and NTproBNP increase treated with endovascular covered stent.
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