Why the study?
Does fetal pulmonary balloon valvuloplasty improve hemodynamics and allow biventricular repair in fetuses with critical pulmonary stenosis/atresia with intact ventricular septum?
Does fetal pulmonary balloon valvuloplasty improve hemodynamics and allow biventricular repair in fetuses with critical pulmonary stenosis/atresia with intact ventricular septum?
Fetal pulmonary valvuloplasty is feasible and may alter the natural history of critical pulmonary stenosis with intact ventricular septum to achieve biventricular circulation.
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Case report supports feasibility without altering practice; leaves open whether fetal valvuloplasty improves biventricular repair rates in critical pulmonary stenosis.
Galindo et al. (2005) studied this question.
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