Aortic valve stenosis constitutes 3-6% of congenital heart diseases with an incidence of 1-4 per 10,000 live births (Khalid et al, 2006). The prevalence of aortic stenosis at birth is 0.03% (Mahle et al, 2010). If left untreated, it can lead to considerable morbidity and mortality in neonates, infants, children and adults. Until three decades ago, the only treatment that could be offered to chi...

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 gra...

135. The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Balloon Valvuloplasty Registry Participants. Multicenter experience with balloon mitral commissurotomy. NHLBI Balloon Valvuloplasty Registry Report on immediate and 30-day follow-up results. Circulation. 1992;85:

In the last century, medical innovation has revolutionized human lives and the management of medical diseases. Conditions which were once considered untreatable are now managed and even cured. Consequently, life expectancy has dramatically increased. The aging population brings about new challenges and pathologies that must be addressed with different approaches. As the body ages, so does the h...

Very elderly patients with severe aortic stenosis will probably benefit from percutaneous balloon valvuloplasty. Ninety-two patients, aged 80 or older (mean age, 84 +/- 3.7 years) and all severely incapacitated (18 with an associated pathologic condition or in critical condition with terminal heart failure), underwent a valvuloplasty procedure. Femoral access was used in all cases except seven ...

BACKGROUND To identify predictors of long-term outcome after balloon aortic valvuloplasty, we analyzed data on 674 adults (mean age, 78 +/- 9 years; 56% were women) undergoing this procedure at 24 clinical centers who had a mean initial increase in aortic valve area of 0.3 cm2. METHODS AND RESULTS Baseline data included clinical, echocardiographic, and catheterization variables. Follow-up dat...