title: [Percutaneous pulmonary balloon dilatation in complex congenital defects].
abstract: Since several years percutaneous balloon dilatation has gained more and more importance as a method circumventing thoracotomy. Induced by the results in the international literature [1-14] we performed successfully percutaneous pulmonary balloon dilatations in 8 patients between June 1988 and March 1990. Three patients (aged 6.5 to 27 years) had an isolated, prevailing valvular pulmonary stenosis, while the five others had a complex congenital anomaly with valvular and subvalvular pulmonary stenosis. The paper reports the results of pulmonary balloon dilatations in the latter five patients.
authors.affiliation: Herzchirurgische Abteilung, Medizinische Universität Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Szeged, Ungarn.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Gaal
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002404:Catheterization; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011666:Pulmonary Valve Stenosis / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy*
vernacular_title: Die perkutane pulmonale Ballondilatation bei komplexen kongenitalen Vitien.