AIM The purpose of this study is to determine the outcome and complications of pregnancy in women with pulmonary autograft valve replacement for aortic valve disease. METHODS AND RESULTS The records of all women who had undergone pulmonary autograft valve replacement at the National Heart Hospital (now Royal Brompton Hospital) since 1968 were reviewed. From 1968 to 1993, 27 hospital survivors...

The morphology of the central pulmonary artery was studied by selective angiography in 21 previously unoperated patients (aged 11 days-21 years, median 4 years) with pulmonary atresia associated with various types of congenital heart disease. Angiographic findings were confirmed at operation in 10 patients. There was juxtaductal obstruction of the left pulmonary artery in two thirds of the pati...

Introduction: Mitral stenosis is a condition characterized by the narrowing of mitral valve, which regulates blood flow between left atrium and ventricle heart. Objectives: The main objective study to find mid-term clinical echocardiographic outcomes percutaneous transvenous commissurotomy in patients with rheumatic stenosis. Material Methods: present was retrospective observational conducted a...

Abbreviations: ACC/AHA, American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association; AF, atrial fibrillation; ANP, Atrial Natriuretic Peptide; AS, aortic stenosis; BNP, Brain Natriuretic Peptide; EF, ejection fraction; ESC, European Society of Cardiology; LA, left atrium; MR, mitral regurgitation; MS, mitral stenosis; MVA, mitral valve area; NT-Pro-BNP, N terminal-pro brain natriuretic peptide; P...

etralogy of Fallot with or without pulmonary atresia ccounts for approximately 10% of all forms of congenital eart disease. Establishing unobstructed blood flow between he right ventricle (RV) and the confluence of the pulmoary arteries using the transannular patch technique or via he insertion of an interposition graft valve between the RV nd pulmonary artery have been the main surgical option...

there is a paucity of literature regarding iatrogenic aortic valve perforation after cardiac operation is performed in the vicinity of the aortic valve. this report describes the clinical, echocardiographic, and angiocardiographic recognition of iatrogenic aortic valve perforation in a patient who had previously under gone membranous ventricular septal defect and pulmonary stenosis. five days a...

Background This study was performed to determine independent predictors of long-term outcome after percutaneous balloon dilation of congenital pulmonary valve stenosis. Smaller follow-up series of patients after balloon pulmonary valvuloplasty have shown inconsistent results regarding the independent relation between prognostic factors and longterm outcome, as many patient selection and technic...

C ongenital cardiac defects involving the right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT) require initial surgical interventions as early as the neonatal period. These defects may include severe pulmonic valve stenosis, pulmonary atresia with or without ventricular septal defect, tetralogy of Fallot, transposition of the great arteries, and truncus arteriosus. In addition, congenital aortic valve defect...

Severe aortic stenosis (AS) results in cardiac damages, such as left ventricular hypertrophy, atrial enlargement, pulmonary pressure elevation and advanced stage, right damage. Généreux colleagues proposed a staging classification based on these extra-valvular damages 2017, with increasing stage representing more While regression of is expected following valve replacement, the reversal damage t...

Clinical, hemodynamic, angiographic, and echocardiographic as well as operative findings of a 19 years old girl are presented who had the unique combination of severe pulmonary valvular and infundibular stenosis with Ebstein's anomaly of the tricuspid valve. Pulmonary stenosis was relieved by infundibular resection and valvotomy. The atrial septal defect was closed with plication of atrialized ...