How to Do It - Implantation Technique for Newer-Generation Sutureless/Rapid-Deployment Aortic Valve Replacement.

'Sutureless' or rapid-deployment (RD) aortic valve replacement (AVR) is an emerging alternative to standard AVR in elderly high-risk surgical patients. Here, the authors describe their implantation technique for the newer-generation Edwards INTUITY-Elite® valve (Edwards Lifesciences, Irvine, CA, USA), a balloon-expandable stented trileaflet bovine pericardial bioprosthesis that received CE Mark European approval in April 2014.