This 360 degree photo shows Dee Dee Wang, M.D., director of structural heart imaging, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Mich., shows how a Sapien transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) valve placed in the inferior vena cava can be used as an interventional treatment of severe tricuspid regurgitation. The procedure is known as the caval valve implantation (CAVI).
Henry Ford recently celebrated treating its 1,000th patient using 3-D printed hearts from patient's CT scan to help plan and navigate in complex anatomy.
Watch a quick interview with Wang in the VIDEO: The Importance of the Neo-LVOT in Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement.
Read the related article Interventional Imagers: The Conductors of the Heart Team Orchestra, which Wang helped author.
Watch the related VIDEO: Overview of the Henry Ford Hospital Structural Heart Program.