Journal article

Publication year: 2018

Pages: 106-111

Journal: Journal of Interventional Cardiology

Volume number: 31

Issue number: 1

ISSN: 0896-4327

eISSN: 1540-8183

Open access status: Bronze

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1111/joic.12443

Publisher: Wiley

Abstract: 
Percutaneous pulmonary valve implantation (PPVI) is nowadays an accepted treatment option to repair post-surgical conduit dysfunction of the right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT). In addition, many patients need a pulmonary valve to reconstruct a hemodynamically incompetent native or conduit free outflow tract. Based on our experience with percutaneous stent-valve placement in a cohort of 125 patients, we report here transvenous reconstruction of a conduit-free, patch repaired outflow tract by utilizing balloon-expandable stent-valves in 23 patients with a median age of 22 years (5-60 years). In 20 patients, the step-by-step procedure was performed uneventful with the aimed success. Severe RVOT dysfunction in term of a clinical relevant regurgitation could be changed to mild, as it was confirmed by follow-up color Doppler echocardiography. In a 5-year-old girl a Melody (R) valve was placed as a surgical-interventional hybrid approach. In one patient, the procedure was complicated by stent embolization during preparation of the RVOT for stent-valve implantation. Reposition of the embolized stent was nevertheless successful for finishing percutaneous valve-implantation. In one patient, surgical approach became necessary because of the inability to advance the balloon-mounted stent-valve through a pre-stented RVOT. Considering the current available balloon-expandable stent-valves, transvenous pulmonary valve implantation is feasible to treat even an incompetent conduit-free RVOT. However, preparation of the RVOT by pre-stenting, in most patients with more than two stents in telescope technique remains challenging. Reconstruction of RVOT by the current available valves is promising only for a carefully selected group of patients.

Harvard Citation style: Esmaeili, A., Bollmann, S., Khalil, M., De Rosa, R., Fichtlscherer, S., Akintuerk, H., et al. (2018) Percutaneous pulmonary valve implantation for reconstruction of a patch-repaired right ventricular outflow tract, Journal of Interventional Cardiology, 31(1), pp. 106-111. https://doi.org/10.1111/joic.12443

APA Citation style: Esmaeili, A., Bollmann, S., Khalil, M., De Rosa, R., Fichtlscherer, S., Akintuerk, H., & Schranz, D. (2018). Percutaneous pulmonary valve implantation for reconstruction of a patch-repaired right ventricular outflow tract. Journal of Interventional Cardiology. 31(1), 106-111. https://doi.org/10.1111/joic.12443