Population
A five-year-old child with congenital pulmonary stenosis
Design
Case_report
Authors
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Alerts to permanent complete heart block risk during pulmonary stenosis balloon dilatation; hypothesis-generating for AV node protection and procedural monitoring.
Balloon dilatation for congenital pulmonary stenosis carries a risk of permanent complete heart block, likely due to pressure-induced damage to the atrioventricular node.
Lo et al. (1988) studied this question.
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