%0 Journal Article
%T Real-time transesophageal echocardiography facilitates antegrade balloon aortic valvuloplasty
%A Chiharu Tanaka
%A Daisuke Tonomura
%A Hitoshi Fukumoto
%A Kazato Ito
%A Kentaro Yano
%A Kosuke Takehara
%A Masataka Yoshida
%A Naoto Kino
%A Takao Tsuchida
%A Tomohiro Nakashoji
%A Toshiya Kurotobi
%A Yoshihisa Shimada
%J Archive of "Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy".
%D 2016
%R 10.21037/cdt.2015.10.07
%X We report two cases of severe aortic stenosis (AS) where antegrade balloon aortic valvuloplasty (BAV) was performed under real-time transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) guidance. Real-time TEE can provide useful information for evaluating the aortic valve response to valvuloplasty during the procedure. It was led with the intentional wire-bias technique in order to compress the severely calcified leaflet, and consequently allowed the balloon to reach the largest possible size and achieve full expansion of the aortic annulus
%K Aortic stenosis (AS)
%K balloon aortic valvuloplasty (BAV)
%K ultrasonics
%K valvular heart disease
%K INOUE balloon
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4805762/