Percutaneous Transluminal Balloon Valvuloplasty For Pulmonary Valve Stenosis: Report On Six Cases
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1994Author
Yonga, GO,
Bonhoeffer, P
Yuko-Jowi ., C
Shori, A,
Aseso, H
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Percutaneous transluminal baloon valvuloplasty is currently the treatment of choice for most cases of pulmonary valve stenosis. In the first series of cases performed at Kenyatta National Hospital, six patients aged 4 to 24 years with severe pulmonary valve stenosis and no other associated cardiac lesions were selected for the procedure. Immediately following baloon valvuloplasty, the pressure gradients across pulmonary valve measured by both echo-Doppler technique and cardiac catheterisation dropped very significantly (P < 0.001). Catheterisation peak systolic gradients (psg) dropped from 162.5 +/- 23.7 to 56.5 +/- 19.0 while echo-Doppler pressure gradients dropped from 112.0 +/- 11.9 to 42.8 +/- 16.0. No complications occurred during or after the procedure. This initial short-term experience in our set-up confirms the safety and effectiveness of this procedure. Furthermore, this procedure is much cheaper and technically easier to perform than cardiac surgery.
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Http://profiles.uonbi.ac.ke/christineyuko/publications/percutaneous-transluminal-balloon-valvuloplasty-pulmonary-valve-stenosishttp://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/30105
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8062769
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Percutaneous Transluminal Balloon Valvuloplasty For Pulmonary Valve Stenosis: Report On Six Cases. East Afr Med J . 1994 Apr; 71 ( 4 ): 232-5 . Pmid: 8062769 [pubmed - Indexed For Medline] Yonga Go, Bonhoeffer P, Yuko-jowi C, Shori A, Aseso H., Yuko-, Dr. Jowi Christine A. , East Afr Med J . 1994 Apr; 71 ( 4 ): 232-5 ., (1994)Publisher
University of Nairobi School of Medicine
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