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SUTURELESS VALVE PROSTHESIS

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Recent technological developments have led to an alternative option which avoids the placement and tying of sutures, known as “sutureless” or rapid deployment aortic valves

PERCEVAL -LEVANOVA

• Self-anchoring and self-expanding bioprosthetic valve
• Made of bovine pericardium
• Mounted on an elastic alloy frame
• Sinusoidal struts (structural element) anchor the device in the Valsalva sinus and annular sealing is obtained with brief low-pressure balloon dilation

PERCEVAL -LEVANOVA

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EDWARDS INTUITY

• Based on the Carpentier-Edwards PERIMOUNT Magna Ease aortic valve
  
• A stented tri-leaflet bovine pericardial bioprosthesis (the Magna valve platform)
  
• A balloon expandable, cloth-covered stent frame deployed at the inflow tract.
  
• The valve is positioned supra-annularly using three guiding sutures.
  
• The sutures are tied, and the aortotomy closed following frame expansion with a balloon catheter

EDWARDS INTUITY Elite VALVE SYSTEM

• NICE Guidelines for sutureless Aortic Valve Replacement for Aortic Stenosis
• Sutureless aortic valve replacement: a systematic review and meta-analysis