A transcatheter pulmonary valve can be successfully and safely implanted within a failed bioprosthetic pulmonary valve, yielding good short-term hemodynamic results. The findings, from the largest ...

Because they carry a higher reintervention rate, percutaneous pulmonary valves cost approximately $20,000 more than surgical valve replacement over 5-year follow-up. Even so, a shortened hospital stay ...

New Orleans, LA - Long-term follow-up of children who underwent percutaneous balloon dilation (PBD) of pulmonary valve stenosis shows outcomes to be "excellent," researchers conclude. Up to 19 years ...

University of MIchigan Health C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, part of Ann Arbor-based Michigan Medicine, is among the first in the U.S. to perform a catheter-based pulmonary valve replacement on a ...

Patients with congenital heart diseases often suffer from obstructions in the right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT), which carries blood from the heart to the lungs. These obstructions can be ...

Right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT) dysfunction often occurs as part of complex congenital heart conditions, such as tetralogy of Fallot. It may take the form of pulmonary valve stenosis, pulmonary ...

Valley Children’s Hospital in Madera, Calif., has successfully performed its first procedure using the Medtronic Harmony transcatheter pulmonary valve. Led by interventional cardiologist Teresa Evans, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Endocarditis after transcatheter pulmonary valve replacement in children and adults with postoperative ...

Pulmonary valve stenosis can be both congenital (present at birth) or something adults develop later on in life. It can range in severity from mild to severe cases. Often, a person may not know they ...

Biventricular correction of tetralogy of Fallot was devised more than 50 years ago. Current short-term outcomes are excellent. The potential for late complications is, however, an important concern ...