Mailing Address: Joana Sofia Silva Moura Ferreira • Rua do Padrão, 479, Vila Maior, Coimbra – Portugal E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] Manuscript received October 17, 2016; revised mansucript October 27, 2016, accepted October 27, 2016 A 79-year-old female with no relevant past medical history was admitted in our emergency department for dyspnea on minimal exert...

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...

The lung was biopsied in 20 children with double inlet ventricle and pulmonary hypertension aged 2 months to 14 years. Eleven patients had two patent atrioventricular valves, three atresia of the right valve, and six hypoplasia of the left valve. Severe pulmonary arterial medial hypertrophy occurred in the nine children less than 1 year of age. The findings did not suggest a period of normality...

Background—Transcatheter pulmonary valve placement is an emerging therapy for pulmonary regurgitation and right ventricular outflow tract obstruction in selected patients. The Melody valve was recently approved in the United States for placement in dysfunctional right ventricular outflow tract conduits. Methods and Results—From January 2007 to August 2009, 136 patients (median age, 19 years) un...

BACKGROUND Transcatheter pulmonary valve placement is an emerging therapy for pulmonary regurgitation and right ventricular outflow tract obstruction in selected patients. The Melody valve was recently approved in the United States for placement in dysfunctional right ventricular outflow tract conduits. METHODS AND RESULTS From January 2007 to August 2009, 136 patients (median age, 19 years) ...

Pulmonary valve replacement is required after tetralogy of Fallot or surgery performed for relief right ventricular outflow obstruction. Interventional methods are more preferable patient comfort in medical practice. Here we introduce a 14-year-old male who developed complications migration and thrombosis intervention pulmonary replacement, was successfully treated with second operation.

Twenty two children (age range 4 months-20 years) with pulmonary valve stenosis and ten children (age range 1 month-11 years) with coarctation of the aorta underwent balloon dilatation in the 29 month period between October 1983 and February 1986. Number 5-9 French catheters with 5-20 mm balloons were used according to the size of the angiographically measured pulmonary valve annulus or coarcte...

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 long-term outcome, as many patient selection and techni...

We describe the case of a newborn with 22q11 deletion and an unusual form of common arterial trunk with the main pulmonary artery arising anteriorly at the level of the common arterial valve sinus. Case reports: We report the case of a term newborn male who presented to our institution with a prenatal diagnosis of congenital heart disease. His mother was a 29-year-old woman with 22q11 deletion ...