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Outcomes 60 years after surgical valvotomy for isolated congenital pulmonary valve stenosis
Author(s) -
Sekhon Subhjit,
Barger Philip M.,
Abarbanell Aaron M.
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of cardiac surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.428
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1540-8191
pISSN - 0886-0440
DOI - 10.1111/jocs.15276
Subject(s) - medicine , pulmonary valve stenosis , surgery , pulmonary valve , stenosis , cardiology
Congenital pulmonary valve stenosis (PVS) is a common congenital heart defect. In the infancy of cardiac surgery, open surgical valvotomy or closed surgical transventricular pulmonary valvotomy (Brock procedure) were the mainstays of therapy. We report the longest‐known published follow‐up of two women who as young children underwent pulmonary valvotomy for PVS and subsequent uncomplicated open pulmonary valve replacement over 60 years later.