Cutting balloon angioplasty for children with small-vessel pulmonary artery stenoses. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Patients with complex congenital heart disease may have pulmonary artery stenoses that are either congenital or associated with scarring following surgical procedures. This study evaluates cutting balloon angioplasty for small-vessel pulmonary artery stenoses resistant to standard balloon angioplasty. Between October 1998 and December 1999, patients were enrolled in an FDA-approved compassionate-use protocol. During four catheterizations, there were seven lesions found resistant to standard balloon angioplasty (mean lesion diameter was unchanged: 1.8 mm +/- 0.8 mm to 1.9 +/- 0.8 mm). A cutting balloon was inflated twice in each of these lesions. Standard balloon angioplasty was then repeated. Final mean lesion diameter was increased significantly (1.9 mm +/- 0.8 mm to 3.8 +/- 1.3 mm; P

publication date

  • January 1, 2002

Research

keywords

  • Angioplasty, Balloon
  • Heart Defects, Congenital
  • Pulmonary Artery

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0036134006

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1002/ccd.10031

PubMed ID

  • 11793498

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 55

issue

  • 1