Maiy H. El Sayed, Ahmad K. Darwazah, Hamdy M. El Sayed Department of Cardiology, Ain Shams University and Cardiac Surgery, Heliopolis Cardiac Center, Cairo, Egypt |
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Balloon valvuloplasty to dilate stenotic bioprosthetic valves is rarely used, but has been applied successfully to dilate bioprosthetic mitral, aortic, tricuspid and, to a lesser extent, pulmonary valves. The case is reported of a 45-year-old |
male patient with right-sided heart failure who underwent a successful dilatation of a stenotic, calcific bioprosthetic pulmonary valve using double-balloon valvuloplasty. |
Double-Balloon Valvuloplasty of Calcified Bioprosthetic Pulmonary Valve Twenty-Three Years after Implantation |
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