INTRODUCTION The Venus p‑valve (MedTech, Shanghai, China) is a self-expanding percutaneous heart valve designed to be implanted in a native patched right ventricle outflow tract. The worldwide clinical experience with this valve is just beginning and the results have so far been encouraging. We present our initial early experience implanting the Venus p‑valve in the native right ventricle outfl...

Many patients with congenital heart disease now undergo cardiac surgery based solely on clinical and echocardiographic findings, but those with intracardiac shunts still frequently require cardiac catheterisation because there is no reliable non-invasive method of measuring the pulmonary artery pressure. Blinded to the haemodynamic results two independent observers retrospectively studied the c...

Absent or hypoplastic pulmonary valve is an uncommon condition usually associated with a ventricular septal defect and an obstructive pulmonary valve ring. Secondary abnormalities involving the pulmonary arteries and major bronchi are common, and many result in severe pulmonary complications. Eight patients with absent pulmonary valve, ventricular septal defect and obstructed pulmonary valve ri...

BACKGROUND Right-sided infective endocarditis is uncommon. This is primarily seen in patients with intravenous drug use, pacemaker or central venous lines, or congenital heart disease. The vast majority of cases involve the tricuspid valve. Isolated pulmonary valve endocarditis is extremely rare. We report the first case of a pulmonary valve nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis caused by right ...

Pulmonary artery aneurysm (PAA) is generally a rare lesion, and there is no definitive approach for it. We report the case of a 45-year-old man who was admitted for the evaluation of dyspnea. In childhood, he had been diagnosed with PAA with congenital pulmonary valve stenosis and regurgitation, and he had a percutaneous transvenous pulmonary valve commissurotomy. Transthoracic echocardiogram s...

BACKGROUND Right ventricular (RV) volume overload increases morbidity and mortality after tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) repair. Surgical strategies like pulmonary leaflets sparing and tricuspid valve repair at time of primary repair may decrease RV overload. Our objective is to evaluate early and midterm results of pulmonary leaflets sparing with infundibular preservation and tricuspid valve repair...

The quadricuspid pulmonary valve is a rare congenital anomaly. It tends to be clinically quiescent. Its diagnosis by two-dimensional echocardiography could be very difficult because of the anatomical features. We report on the echocardiographic findings of a 66-year-old female patient with mitral and aortic regurgitation of rheumatic origin and severe pulmonary hypertension. There was an aneuri...

Background/Introduction Replacement of the aortic valve or aortic root with a pulmonary autograft (Ross procedure) and replacement of the pulmonary valve with a pulmonary allograft or xenograft and is now a widely used technique for the treatment of aortic valve disease in the children and young adult. Excellent short and midterm results have been demonstrated but there is continuing concern ab...

Address for Correspondence: Shiv Kumar Yadav, MD. Ph.D. Department of Pediatrics, Shanghai United Family Hospital No 1139, Xianxia Road, Changning District, Shanghai, P. R. China, 200336. Mobile No: +86-18221400535, E-mail: [email protected] © Copyright AJMS Pulmonary valve stenosis (PS) is a common congenital heart disease, its early diagnosis and treatment can improve growth and prognosi...

Septic pulmonary emboli (SPE) can be a difficult clinical entity to distinguish from thromboembolic pulmonary embolism (TPE) in a patient with history of IV drug abuse (IVDA). We present a case of a patient who presented with failure to thrive and presumed diagnosis of recurrent PE that ultimately was discovered to have fungal pulmonary valve endocarditis resulting in a right ventricular outflo...