Anterograde double-balloon valvoplasty for treatment of severe valvar aortic stenosis in a preterm baby weighing 1400 grams

Cardiol Young. 2000 Jan;10(1):67-9. doi: 10.1017/s1047951100006442.

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.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aortic Valve Stenosis / diagnostic imaging
  • Aortic Valve Stenosis / therapy*
  • Catheterization*
  • Echocardiography, Doppler
  • Humans
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Infant, Premature, Diseases / diagnostic imaging
  • Infant, Premature, Diseases / therapy*