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J Am Coll Cardiol, 1988; 12:476-479
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Results of balloon valvuloplasty in typical and dysplastic pulmonary valve stenosis: Doppler echocardiographic follow-up

PM Marantz, JC Huhta, CE Mullins, DJ Murphy Jr, MR Nihill, A Ludomirsky, and GY Yoon

Lillie Frank Abercrombie Section of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.

To assess the usefulness of balloon valvuloplasty in patients with a dysplastic pulmonary valve, the files of 36 patients (aged 1 day to 18.5 years) who had two-dimensional echocardiography before and continuous wave Doppler echocardiography late after balloon valvuloplasty (balloon diameter greater than or equal to 20% anulus diameter) were reviewed. Results of relief of pulmonary stenosis were graded by catheter gradient in the catheterization laboratory and compared with Doppler echocardiographic findings at follow-up. There were 32 patients with typical pulmonary stenosis and 4 with a dysplastic valve. In the 32 patients with typical pulmonary stenosis, transvalvular gradient changed from a mean of 67 +/- 32 to 20 +/- 20 mm Hg (p less than 0.0001, mean reduction 72.6%). The gradients at follow-up by Doppler echocardiography averaged 20 mm Hg including 15 that increased, 3 that were unchanged and 14 that decreased. Only 3 (9%) of 32 patients had a gradient greater than 25 mm Hg at follow-up and only one gradient was greater than 35 mm Hg. All four patients with a dysplastic valve had a gradient that decreased with valvuloplasty from a mean of 85 +/- 33 to 33 +/- 20 mm Hg (p less than 0.05); gradient reduction in this group ranged from 40 to 85% (mean 57.5%). The gradient at follow-up increased in three of these four patients and decreased in one (the only late gradient less than 25 mm Hg). Late gradient was less than 35 mm Hg in two of the four patients and was reduced by 43 and 57%, respectively, in the other two.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)


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