Six infants with complex cyanotic heart defects (CCHD) (tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) in two, transposition of the great arteries with ventricular septal defect (VSD) and pulmonary stenosis (PS) in two, ...

Parker et al. 4 reported immediate changes in the respective pressures in 21 patients during mitral commissurotomy — usually an immediate drop. The percentage reduction was higher for the pressure in ...

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence is examining percutaneous fetal balloon valvuloplasty for pulmonary atresia with intact ventricular septum and will publish guidance on its ...

In some forms of congenital heart disease, relatively simple obstructive anomalies causing physiologic changes in utero may lead to more serious abnormalities of cardiovascular growth and development.

Doctors in Ho Chi Minh City have successfully performed Vietnam’s first officially approved fetal heart procedure, completing ...

The technique, called pulmonary valvuloplasty, has been developed by specialists from Hammersmith and Royal Brompton Hospitals in London. It is used to unblock the pulmonary valve, which when working ...

Valvular pulmonary stenosis is a fairly common lesion, reported to occur in 10% of all patients with congenital heart disease. Echocardiographic features of significant pulmonary stenosis include ...

Aga Khan University Hospital has carried out the balloon pulmonary valvuloplasty procedure, a first in Kenya. The non-surgical process treats pulmonic stenosis — obstruction of normal blood flow in ...

Thus, the pattern of the resolution of pulmonary vascular disease after mitral-valve surgery is not clear. Furthermore, the influence of cardiopulmonary bypass and the characteristics of the ...

2.1.1 Congenital heart defects are the most common type of birth defect and include critical pulmonary stenosis, pulmonary atresia with a ventricular septal defect and pulmonary atresia with intact ...