Treatment of severe refractory valvar pulmonary stenosis with primary transcatheter pulmonary valve implantation.
Some patients with pulmonary valve stenosis do not respond to balloon valvuloplasty and must undergo surgical repair. We report the case of a 12-year-old child with pulmonary valve stenosis and Noonan syndrome in whom we performed transcatheter Melody pulmonary valve implantation after balloon dilation failed. The result was excellent. This technique can be proposed as an alternative to surgery in such cases.
1Department of Pediatrics,Section of Pediatric Cardiology,Mercy Children's Hospital,Toledo,Ohio,United States of America.
Kalyani R
KR
Trivedi
2Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Royal Brompton Hospital,London,United Kingdom.
Laurence
L
Robinson
2Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Royal Brompton Hospital,London,United Kingdom.
Alain
A
Fraisse
D000792:Angiography; D063126:Balloon Valvuloplasty / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization / Q000379:methods*; D002648:Child; D015150:Echocardiography, Doppler; D005260:Female; D019918:Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D009634:Noonan Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D011474:Prosthesis Design; D011664:Pulmonary Valve / Q000601:surgery*; D011666:Pulmonary Valve Stenosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D012086:Reoperation
CHD; Pulmonary valve disease; paediatrics; percutaneous intervention; percutaneous valve therapy; valvar pulmonary stenosis