BACKGROUND Pulmonary stenosis is common in children with complex congenital heart diseases. Proper management of this problem, especially postoperatively, is still controversial. This study was designed to assess the rate and determinants of success or failure of balloon angioplasty for such lesions. METHODS Clinical and hemodynamic data from 40 pediatric patients (24 boys and 16 girls) with ...

Isolated bicuspid pulmonary valve is a rare arterial valve anomaly with very few reports in the literature. It is usually in association with other congenital cardiac lesions. However, the true incidence of bicuspid pulmonary valve could be underestimated because of the difficulty in imaging pulmonary valve morphology with conventional two-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography. A 21-year-o...

A 13-year-old girl presented with exertional dyspnea and congestive heart failure. Echocardiography revealed severe congenital mitral stenosis due to anomalous mitral arcade with severe pulmonary hypertension. She underwent successful mitral valve repair. The case is reported for its rarity.

Congenital pulmonary arteriovenous fistulae, provided that they are not present in very large numbers, are best managed surgically, and there is no effective alternative management. Where pulmonary arteriovenous fistulae develop as a consequence of pulmonary hypertension it is rational to resect the fistulae if the cause of pulmonary hypertension - for example, mitral stenosis - is correctable....

BACKGROUND Transcatheter balloon valvuloplasty has been the accepted first line treatment for congenital pulmonic stenosis (PS) in children. Transcatheter closure of perimembranous ventricular septal defect (VSD) with Amplatzer VSD occluder is an alternative to surgical repair. CASE PRESENTATION A 12 year old boy presented with history of exertional dyspnea and atypical chest pain. Physical f...

conclusions children with chd are at risk of severe complications with the involvement of other organs. long-term febrile illness should be taken seriously in these children. they need hospitalization and careful evaluation. case presentation a 6-year-old girl with a ventricular septal defect (vsd) was presented. echocardiography revealed large vegetation in the right ventricular outflow tract ...

Of 3,022 patients with congenital heart disease studied in the heart clinic of the Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital during the last five years, 120 presented with signs of uncomplicated aortic stenosis giving an incidence of 4% of all cases of congenital heart disease. Swan, Wilkinson, and Blount (1958) noted an incidence of 5% of all patients in their congenital heart disease clinic. It has...

A hypertensive 76-year-old man with severe pulmonary valve stenosis (PVS) and recent initiation of haemodialysis was referred with fever, chills, and asthenia. One month prior, he had been admitted with similar symptoms. Transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) had shown a PVS and no valve vegetations were observed. Following discharge, he was readmitted with fever and blood cultures positive for S...