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Published in: Heart and Vessels 11/2020

01-11-2020 | Valvuloplasty | Letter

Role of palliative balloon pulmonary valvuloplasty in babies with tetralogy of Fallot

Author: P. Syamasundar Rao

Published in: Heart and Vessels | Issue 11/2020

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Muneuch and colleagues [1] sought to determine whether balloon pulmonary valvuloplasty (BPV) in babies with tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) prevented early surgical correction. The results of BPV in 31 babies at a mean age of 19 days (range 14–33 days) revealed that early palliative BPV avoided early corrective surgery in only half of the babies but, did not prevent the placement of transannular patch. The severity of infundibular obstruction appears to be responsible, at least in part, for lack benefit of BPV. This is a thoughtfully conducted and well-written study. However, there are some issues that are worthy of further discussion. …
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Metadata
Title
Role of palliative balloon pulmonary valvuloplasty in babies with tetralogy of Fallot
Author
P. Syamasundar Rao
Publication date
01-11-2020
Publisher
Springer Japan
Published in
Heart and Vessels / Issue 11/2020
Print ISSN: 0910-8327
Electronic ISSN: 1615-2573
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00380-020-01628-7

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