Key result
Percutaneous balloon valvuloplasty offers a novel treatment option for stenosed tricuspid bioprostheses.
Why the study?
Percutaneous balloon dilatation has been used for congenital aortic and pulmonary valvular stenoses, but its use for stenosis of porcine bioprosthetic valves was not reported.
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Population
Single patient with severely stenosed porcine bioprosthetic tricuspid valve
Design
Case report of percutaneous valvuloplasty
May support percutaneous options in tricuspid bioprosthetic stenosis; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation before practice change.
Recently, percutaneous balloon dilatation has been successfully used for treatment of congenital aortic and pulmonary valvular stenoses.1 We report the first case of percutaneous valvuloplasty of a severely stenosed porcine bioprosthetic valve.
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Feit et al. (1986) studied this question. Percutaneous balloon valvuloplasty was performed as a novel treatment approach for a severely stenosed porcine bioprosthesis in the tricuspid valve position.
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