作者
Gianfranco Butera, Ornella Milanesi, Isabella Spadoni, Luciane Piazza, Andrea Donti, Christian Ricci, Gabriella Agnoletti, Alberta Pangrazi, Massimo Chessa, Mario Carminati
发表日期
2013/2/1
期刊
Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions
卷号
81
期号
2
页码范围
310-316
简介
Background and aims
Percutaneous implantation of pulmonary valve has been recently introduced in the clinical practice. Our aim was to analyze data of patients treated in Italy by using the Melody Medtronic valve.
Methods
Prospective, observational, multi‐centric survey by means of a web‐based database registry of the Italian Society of Pediatric Cardiology (SICP).
Results
Between October 2007 and October 2010, 63 patients were included in the registry (median age: 24 years; range 11–65 years). Forty subjects were in NYHA class I–II while 23 were in NYHA class III–IV. Patients included had a history of a median three previous surgeries (range 1–5) and a median of one previous cardiac catheterization (range 0–4). A cono‐truncal disease was present in 39 patients, previous Ross operation in 9, and other diagnosis in 15. Indication to valve implantation was pure stenosis in 21 patients, pure regurgitation …
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