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Heart, lung & circulation · May 2011
Case ReportsReconstruction of trileaflet pulmonary valve using autologous pericardium.
- Shantanu Pande, Surendra K Agarwal, Gauranga Majumdar, Mahendra Narwaley, Ram K Shukla, and Mayank Arora.
- Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India. spande@sgpgi.ac.in
- Heart Lung Circ. 2011 May 1; 20 (5): 325-8.
AbstractTetralogy of Fallot with atretic or absent pulmonary valve may require pulmonary valve replacement or reconstruction. We propose a technique of reconstruction of a trileaflet valve at the level of the pulmonary annulus using untreated autologous pericardium. Six cases operated upon, using this technique, had trivial pulmonary regurgitation with a median gradient of 24 mmHg (18-38) across the newly created valve. This approach can be considered in cases with limited availability of more suitable alternatives.Copyright © 2011 Australasian Society of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgeons and the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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