Role of Balloon Aortic Valvuloplasty in the Management of Aortic Stenosis

Balloon aortic valvuloplasty (BAV) provides an excellent alternative to surgical intervention and has become the preferred for initial palliation stenosis in neonates, infants, children, adolescents, young adults. The elderly patients with calcific do not benefit from BAV. With exception of most can be discharged home within 24-hours procedure. Although there is definitive evidence pressure gradient relief immediately after as well at follow-up postponement following BAV, progression insufficiency late follow up remain a major concern. In neonatal population, severe may develop requiring intervention. Despite these limitations, balloon currently considered therapeutic procedure choice management congenital pediatric adult population. Careful detect recurrence development significant recommended.