Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Jux, Christian
• Akintuerk, Hakan
• Schranz, Dietmar

Titel

Two melodies in concert: Transcatheter double‐valve replacement

Ist Teil von

• Catheterization and cardiovascular interventions, 2012-11, Vol.80 (6), p.997-1001

Ort / Verlag

Hoboken: Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Quelle

Wiley-Blackwell Journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Percutaneous pulmonary valve implantation has been established as a valuable treatment option for elder children and adolescents with conduit failure in the right ventricular outflow tract. Transcatheter valve implantation in the tricuspid position is restricted to single case reports. A 26‐year‐old male initially diagnosed with tetralogy of Fallot and hypoplastic pulmonary arteries hitherto underwent a total of five open chest procedures including tricuspid valve replacement with a bioprosthesis and a pulmonary homograft exchange. He now presented with severe right heart failure due to a degenerated pulmonary homograft and calcified, severely stenotic tricuspid bioprosthesis with markedly dilated and reduced right ventricular function. We report on the first successful percutaneous transcatheter double‐valve replacement using two Melody valves in the pulmonary and tricuspid position, respectively. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.