Transluminal balloon valvuloplasty is an alternative to surgical valvotomy for congenital pulmonary valve stenosis. The aim of this study was to evaluate the long term results (to 13.5 years) of balloon pulmonary valvuloplasty. From June 1998 to January 2012, percutaneous balloon pulmonary valvuloplasty for congenital pulmonary valve stenosis was performed in 98 patients (50 males, 48 females, ...

Critical congenital pulmonary stenosis with intact interventricular septum is a cyanotic and potentially lethal neonatal cardiac anomaly. Percutaneous transcatheter balloon valvuloplasty for critical often presents technical difficulties due to supra-systemic pressure in right ventricle. Using transjugular approach instead of the femoral vein helps dealing this issue. We describe successful use...

OBJECTIVE Systemic-to-pulmonary shunt operations are still required for palliation of certain congenital heart defects. The aim of this study was to analyze the incidence and etiology of the development of pulmonary artery stenosis after these procedures. METHODS AND RESULTS Pre- and post-operative angiograms of 59 patients who underwent 54 peripheral and 12 central shunt operations were anal...

Haemoptysis is a potentially life-threatening condition with the need for prompt diagnosis. In about 10-20% of all cases the bleeding source remains unexplained with the standard diagnostic approach. The aim of this article is to show the necessity of widening the diagnostic approach to haemoptysis with consideration of pulmonary venous stenosis as a possible cause of even severe haemoptysis an...

Between January 1983 and December 1987, 62 patients underwent an arterial switch operation for transposition of the great arteries with ventricular septal defect or double outlet right or left ventricle. There were three hospital deaths (4.8%), and no deaths occurred in neonates (less than 1 month of age, n = 18). There were three late deaths, one due to coronary obstruction and two due to pulm...

that occurs almost exclusively in young children with or without various forms of congenital heart disease (1). Pulmonary vein stenosis in the adults is very rare, and the small number of reported cases has often been associated with mediastinal processes such as neoplasms or fibrosing mediastinitis (2, 3). Recently, stenosis has appeared as a complication of radiofrequency ablation procedures ...

Ellis-Van Creveld syndrome is a very rare congenital disorder which its principal features are polysyndactyly, chondrodysplasia, cardiac abnormalities and ectodermal dysplasia. We report a 10-year-old girl with major manifestations of this syndrome who also had multiple brownish macules and patches on trunk and extremities with aortic and pulmonary stenosis in echocardiographic evaluations.