- Case Report
- The Management of Three Infants with Critical Valvular Aortic Stenosis by Transcarotid Balloon Aortic Balvuloplasty
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Kie-Young Park, Young-Hwue Kim, Ji-Yeon Min, Jae-Kon Ko, In-Sook Park, Chang-Yee Hong, Tae-Jin Yun, Dong-Man Seo
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Clin Exp Pediatr. 2000;43(6):820-827. Published online June 15, 2000
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Critical valvular aortic stenosis(AS) is a life threatening congenital heart anomaly in neonates or infants. The main cause of death is rapidly progressing left ventricular failure. The treatment goal of critical AS is to save left ventricular function early. Before the 1980s, the preferred treatment was surgical valvotomy, however, that operative method had a high mortality rate and risk of... |
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