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Anterograde double-balloon valvoplasty for treatment of severe valvar aortic stenosis in a preterm baby weighing 1400 grams

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2008

Matthias Peuster ,
Thomas Paul  and
Gerd Hausdorf
Matthias Peuster*
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Pediatric Intensive Care, Children's Hospital, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
Thomas Paul
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Pediatric Intensive Care, Children's Hospital, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
Gerd Hausdorf
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Pediatric Intensive Care, Children's Hospital, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
*
Matthias Peuster, M.D., Department of Pediatric cardiology, children's Hospital, Hannover Medical School, D-3062 3 Hannover, Germany. Tel: +49 511 532 3220; Fax: +49 511 532 9038; E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

We describe our treatment of a premature baby born weighing 1400 g with severe aortic stenosis, with a gradient of 80 mmHg across the valve. Efforts to advance a 6 mm angioplasty catheter into the stenotic aortic valve via the left ventricle failed. Anterograde angioplasty, instead, was performed using two 4 mm coronary angioplasty catheters. Six months subsequent to the intervention, the pressure gradient measured 25 mmHg, and there was no hemodynamically significant aortic insufficiency.

Keywords

congenital heart diseaseaortic stenosisvalvoplastyballoon dilation
Type
Brief Reports
Information
Cardiology in the Young , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , January 2000 , pp. 67 - 69
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2000

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