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Percutaneous Balloon Valvuloplasty for Pulmonic Stenosis in Adolescents and Adults
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BACKGROUND: Percutaneous balloon valvuloplasty has been the accepted first-line treatment for congenital pulmonic stenosis in children. Its efficacy in adolescents and adults is less well defined. METHODS: Between December 1985 and July 1995 we performed percutaneous pulmonic valvuloplasty with a single Inoue balloon catheter in 53 adolescent or adult patients 13 to 55 years of age (mean [+/- SD], 26 +/- 11). Follow-up studies were performed 0.2 to 9.8 years after the procedure (mean, 6.9 +/- 3.1) by Doppler echocardiography (in all the patients) and by cardiac catheterization and angiography (in nine patients). RESULTS: After balloon valvuloplasty, the systolic pressure gradient across the pulmonic valve decreased from 91 +/- 46 mm Hg to 38 +/- 32 mm Hg (P < 0.001), and the diameter of the pulmonic-valve orifice increased from 8.9 +/- 3.6 mm to 17.4 +/- 4.6 mm (P < 0.001). In the nine patients catheterized at follow-up, the systolic gradient decreased from 107 +/- 48 mm Hg before valvuloplasty to 50 +/- 29 mm Hg after valvuloplasty and to 30 +/- 16 mm Hg at follow-up (P < 0.001 for the comparison of the gradient before and after valvuloplasty; P < 0.001 for the comparison before valvuloplasty and at follow-up; and P < 0.05 for the comparison after valvuloplasty and at follow-up). In the same nine patients, the diameter of the pulmonic valve, as measured by right ventricular angiography, increased from 8.3 +/- 1.4 mm before valvuloplasty to 17.2 +/- 2.0 mm after valvuloplasty (P < 0.001) and to 18.4 +/- 1.4 mm at follow-up (P = 0.08). Incompetence of the pulmonic valve was noted in 7 of the 53 patients (13 percent) after balloon valvuloplasty, but it had disappeared at follow-up in all of them. CONCLUSIONS: Patients with congenital pulmonic stenosis who present in late adolescence or adult life can be treated with percutaneous balloon valvuloplasty with excellent short-term and long-term results that are similar to those in young children.
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- Chen, C.-R., Cheng, T. O., Huang, T., Zhou, Y.-L., Chen, J.-Y., Huang, Y.-G., & Li, H.-J.
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- New England Journal of Medicine
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- Massachusetts Medical Society
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- 1996-07-04
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- 335
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- 21-25
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- 0028-4793 (ISSN-L)
- 1533-4406
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- en
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