The relationship between patent foramen ovale and migraine headache is a topic surrounded by much controversy. We present the case of a 45-year-old woman who underwent successful percutaneous mitral balloon valvuloplasty for rheumatic mitral valve stenosis, but had an immediate postprocedural course complicated by refractory migraine headaches. Interestingly, resolution of her headaches coincid...

BACKGROUND Balloon valvuloplasty was established as an alternative to surgery for treatment of aortic valve stenosis in childhood. Acute complications after balloon dilatation including aortic insufficiency or early death were described. AIM OF WORK To analyze early outcome and midterm results of balloon aortic valvuloplasty (BAV) in Children's Hospital, Mansoura University, Egypt. SUBJECTS...

BACKGROUND Pulmonary valve stenosis (PVS) is one of the most important acyanotic congenital heart diseases in children. Over the last years, balloon pulmonary valvuloplasty (BPV) has become the treatment of choice for the relief of moderate to severe valvular pulmonic stenosis in all age groups. The aim of current study was to report our regional survey on the short term outcomes of BPV among p...

OBJECTIVES This study sought to investigate the changes induced on the pressure-area relation of the left atrium in patients with mitral stenosis after percutaneous balloon mitral valvuloplasty. BACKGROUND Left atrial (LA) function is influenced by changes in LA afterload. The latter is increased in mitral stenosis as a result of increased resistance to blood flow imposed by the stenotic mitr...

Women with valvular heart disease have an increased risk of adverse outcomes in pregnancy; however, with appropriate evaluation and treatment, most women can successfully bear healthy children. During pregnancy, pulmonary stenosis is generally well tolerated in the absence of other haemodynamically significant lesions. We present a case of a multiparous woman,who is pregnant with her sixth chil...

While investigating the outcomes of balloon dilatation procedures in patients with congenital obstructive lesions heart, several parallel observations were made. The purpose this review is to present these observations/phenomena/innovations related pulmonary stenosis (PS), aortic (AS), and coarctation (AC). In subjects who had valvuloplasty (BPV), development infundibular obstruction, electroca...

308 As technology advances resulted in more effective percutaneous approaches to the treatment of valvular stenosis, the terminology used to describe these procedures evolved as well. The term “commissurotomy” originated from the surgical procedure developed for commissural mitral valve stenosis (see chapter 34), and some thought valvuloplasty should be reserved for surgical procedures that mor...

Valvuloplasty: The Chinese Experience To the Editor: We are writing in support of the conclusions reached by Iung et al1 concerning the late results of percutaneous balloon mitral valvuloplasty (PBMV). The French experience confirmed the Chinese experience that was reported earlier with a larger number of patients, namely, a PBMV can be performed with good late results in a variety of patient s...

CASE A 26-year-old woman who had congenital aortic valve stenosis presented with exertional dyspnea. She had undergone percutaneous balloon aortic valvuloplasty 12 years previously at the age of 14. When she was 20 years old, she delivered a neonate by elective cesarean section at the 31st week of gestation because the mean pressure between the left ventricle and the ascending aorta was 52 mmHg...

UNLABELLED Percutaneous balloon aortic valvuloplasty (BAV) was a rare procedure in catheterization laboratories because of its limited prognostic impact. The recent advent of transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) has led to a resurgence of BAV, opening the way to a new indication as a bridge to TAVI. Herein, we reported an 83-year-old man with critical aortic valve stenosis and pulmona...