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Two‐Dimensional Echocardiographic Findings of Pulmonary Valve Cyst Secondary to Pulmonary Valvuloplasty
Author(s) -
Dod Harvinder,
Bhardwaj Ravindra,
Singh Preeti,
Massinople David,
Sajja Venu,
Williams H. James,
Livengood Ryan H.,
Jain Abnash,
Failinger Conard,
Nanda Navin C.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
echocardiography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.404
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1540-8175
pISSN - 0742-2822
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2009.00999.x
Subject(s) - medicine , pulmonary valve , balloon , balloon valvuloplasty , cyst , cardiology , lung , radiology
Real time two‐dimensional transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography demonstrated a mobile echolucent mass attached to the pulmonary valve in a 25‐year‐old adult, 20 years following balloon pulmonary valvuloplasty. The mass was surgically excised and pathology showed it to be a cyst.