Journal article

Publication year: 2012

Pages: 997-1001

Journal: Catheterization & Cardiovascular Interventions

Volume number: 80

Issue number: 6

ISSN: 1522-1946

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1002/ccd.23421

Publisher: Wiley

Abstract: 
Percutaneous pulmonary valve implantation has been established as a valuable treatment option for elder children and adolescents with conduit failure in the right ventricular outflow tract. Transcatheter valve implantation in the tricuspid position is restricted to single case reports. A 26-year-old male initially diagnosed with tetralogy of Fallot and hypoplastic pulmonary arteries hitherto underwent a total of five open chest procedures including tricuspid valve replacement with a bioprosthesis and a pulmonary homograft exchange. He now presented with severe right heart failure due to a degenerated pulmonary homograft and calcified, severely stenotic tricuspid bioprosthesis with markedly dilated and reduced right ventricular function. We report on the first successful percutaneous transcatheter double-valve replacement using two Melody valves in the pulmonary and tricuspid position, respectively. (C) 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Harvard Citation style: Jux, C., Akintuerk, H. and Schranz, D. (2012) Two Melodies in Concert: Transcatheter Double-Valve Replacement, Catheterization & Cardiovascular Interventions, 80(6), pp. 997-1001. https://doi.org/10.1002/ccd.23421

APA Citation style: Jux, C., Akintuerk, H., & Schranz, D. (2012). Two Melodies in Concert: Transcatheter Double-Valve Replacement. Catheterization & Cardiovascular Interventions. 80(6), 997-1001. https://doi.org/10.1002/ccd.23421