Absent pulmonary valve syndrome is a rare congenital cardiac anomaly characterised by failure of pulmonary valve development, resulting in severe regurgitation and aneurysmal dilatation of the ...

What is the Condition of Pulmonary Atresia? Pulmonary atresia is a congenital heart defect where the baby is born with a defective or absent pulmonary valve. The valve should have three leaflets which ...

The pulmonary valve is located between the right ventricle and the pulmonary artery. The valve acts as a doorway that lets blood into and out of the heart. Pulmonary valve stenosis is when the ...

The outlook for people with pulmonary atresia, a congenital heart defect that blocks blood flow to the lungs, has significantly improved with recent medical advancements. Pulmonary atresia presents a ...

Pulmonic regurgitation is when blood leaks back into the heart from the pulmonary artery due to weakness in the pulmonary valve. It happens when a pulmonary valve does not close properly. The ...

Thus, the pattern of the resolution of pulmonary vascular disease after mitral-valve surgery is not clear. Furthermore, the influence of cardiopulmonary bypass and the characteristics of the ...

Device preparation for downsizing the diameter of the pulmonary trunk. We designed and developed a self-expandable stent constructed from a single 0.22-mm nitinol wire in the shape of a conduit with a ...

EINDHOVEN, the Netherlands & ZURICH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Xeltis, a clinical-stage company with the most advanced polymer-based restorative cardiovascular devices, today announced that it has started the ...

Isolated pulmonary-valve endocarditis is quite rare, but it shares demographic, clinical, and microbiologic features with the more-common tricuspid endocarditis. 1 We describe a 35-year-old ...

Pulmonary valve stenosis can be both congenital (present at birth) or something adults develop later on in life. It can range in severity from mild to severe cases. Often, a person may not know they ...

Pulmonary atresia is a congential condition (a condition present at birth) that affects a newborn’s heart. It limits blood flow from the heart to the lungs. A baby with this condition may need surgery ...