How should I treat acute valve regurgitation?

BACKGROUND: An 81-year-old male with symptoms of angina and dyspnoea (NYHA 3), a history of coronary bypass surgery, a transaortic peak gradient of 109 mmHg on transthoracic echocardiography and a logistic Euro-SCORE of 21.6 was deemed suboptimal for surgery by a multidisciplinary team and was accepted for TAVI. INVESTIGATION: Preprocedural diameter of the native aortic root was 24.4 mm on transthoracic echocardiography (TTE), 26.9 mm on contrast angiography and 26.8 mm by 30.2 mm on multislice computed tomography (MSCT). DIAGNOSIS: Heavy calcification of the aortic root and coronary arteries by MSCT. TREATMENT: Transcatheter aortic valve replacement with an 29 mm CoreValve prosthesis.

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