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Unusual interventional management in an adult with tetralogy of Fallot

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 April 2005

Tony Abdel-Massih
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris, France
Younes Boudjemline
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris, France
Philipp Bonhoeffer
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris, France

Abstract

A 53-year-old man with tetralogy of Fallot had been palliated with two classic Blalock-Taussig shunts. Cardiac catheterization in our center revealed acquired atresia of the pulmonary valve. We perforated and dilated the valve as a palliative procedure with a new system using radiofrequency energy.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© 2003 Cambridge University Press

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