Why the study?
Does percutaneous balloon angioplasty improve hemodynamic gradients in patients with congenital coarctation of the aorta or valval pulmonic stenosis?
Population
10 patients (5 with congenital coarctation of the aorta, 5 with congenital valval pulmonic stenosis)
Design
Case_series
Authors
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May reduce gradients in select congenital lesions; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
Does percutaneous balloon angioplasty improve hemodynamic gradients in patients with congenital coarctation of the aorta or valval pulmonic stenosis?
Percutaneous balloon angioplasty effectively reduces translesional pressure gradients in selected patients with congenital aortic coarctation or valval pulmonic stenosis, offering a potential alternative to surgery.
Sidney J. Brodsky (1984) studied this question.
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