Popping point: Unveiling the rare yet critical balloon rupture in transcatheter aortic valve implantation

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Cardiology and Cardio-Vascular Surgery, Hôpital Cardiologique de Haut-Lévêque, Bordeaux University Hospital, 33600 Pessac, France. Electronic address: drcukobesart@gmail.com.
• ² Department of Cardiac Surgery Research, Lankenau Institute for Medical Research, Main Line Health, Wynnewood, PA, United States.
• ³ Department of Cardiology and Cardio-Vascular Surgery, Hôpital Cardiologique de Haut-Lévêque, Bordeaux University Hospital, 33600 Pessac, France.
• ⁴ Department of Cardiac Surgery Research, Lankenau Institute for Medical Research, Main Line Health, Wynnewood, PA, United States; Department of Cardiac Surgery, Lankenau Heart Institute, Main Line Health, Wynnewood, PA, United States.
• ⁵ Department of Cardiovascular Anesthesia and Critical Care, Hôpital Cardiologique de Haut-Lévêque, Bordeaux University Hospital, 33600 Pessac, France.
• ⁶ Department of Cardiac Surgery, Spedali Civili di Brescia, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy.