Percutaneous pulmonary valvuloplasty
Summary
Valvar pulmonary stenosis was first described in 1761 by Morgagni in his classic text ‘De Sedibus et Causis Morborum’. He reported a patient with pulmonary stenosis and and atrial septal defect who had been cyanosed during life 1. Just over two hundred years late Kan and colleagues reported the first case of percutaneous balloon pulmonary valvuloplasty in the New England Journal of Medicine revolutionising the management of this common congenital condition 2.
Valvar pulmonary stenosis
THE SCOPE OF THE PROBLEM
Valvar pulmonary stenosis is a relatively common condition occurring in around 5 out of every 10000 livebirths 3. The reported incidence however is widely variable and complicated by the fact that the condition may develop or retreat with age. Nevertheless, lone pulmonary stenosis is second only to ventricular septal defect in...
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