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Anterograde double-balloon valvoplasty for treatment of severe valvar aortic stenosis in a preterm baby weighing 1400 grams
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 August 2008
Abstract
We describe our treatment of a premature baby born weighing 1400 g with severe aortic stenosis, with a gradient of 80 mmHg across the valve. Efforts to advance a 6 mm angioplasty catheter into the stenotic aortic valve via the left ventricle failed. Anterograde angioplasty, instead, was performed using two 4 mm coronary angioplasty catheters. Six months subsequent to the intervention, the pressure gradient measured 25 mmHg, and there was no hemodynamically significant aortic insufficiency.
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