Because they carry a higher reintervention rate, percutaneous pulmonary valves cost approximately $20,000 more than surgical valve replacement over 5-year follow-up. Even so, a shortened hospital stay ...

A transcatheter pulmonary valve can be successfully and safely implanted within a failed bioprosthetic pulmonary valve, yielding good short-term hemodynamic results. The findings, from the largest ...

BARCELONA, SPAIN — Patients with residual pulmonary hypertension (PH) following successful valvular surgery should not be treated with sildenafil, suggest results of the first randomized controlled ...

Thus, the pattern of the resolution of pulmonary vascular disease after mitral-valve surgery is not clear. Furthermore, the influence of cardiopulmonary bypass and the characteristics of the ...

Lung volume reduction surgery (LVRS) is a treatment for end-stage lung disease caused by emphysema. Emphysema is a type of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) that causes shortness of breath ...

Shillong: An autologous right atrial appendage (RAA)-derived neo-pulmonary valve construction for a patient suffering from pulmonary valve stenosis was successfully performed at North Eastern Indira ...

Peshawar Institute of Cardiology (PIC) has successfully performed Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s first Pulmonary Valve Implantation procedure in a child without a cut. PIC is the first public sector cardiac ...

What is the Condition of Pulmonary Atresia? Pulmonary atresia is a congenital heart defect where the baby is born with a defective or absent pulmonary valve. The valve should have three leaflets which ...

Isolated pulmonary-valve endocarditis is quite rare, but it shares demographic, clinical, and microbiologic features with the more-common tricuspid endocarditis. 1 We describe a 35-year-old ...