Because they carry a higher reintervention rate, percutaneous pulmonary valves cost approximately $20,000 more than surgical valve replacement over 5-year follow-up. Even so, a shortened hospital stay ...

BARCELONA, SPAIN — Patients with residual pulmonary hypertension (PH) following successful valvular surgery should not be treated with sildenafil, suggest results of the first randomized controlled ...

New long-term data showed that the VenusP-valve delivered durable outcomes in patients undergoing percutaneous pulmonary ...

A transcatheter pulmonary valve can be successfully and safely implanted within a failed bioprosthetic pulmonary valve, yielding good short-term hemodynamic results. The findings, from the largest ...

Lung volume reduction surgery (LVRS) is a treatment for end-stage lung disease caused by emphysema. Emphysema is a type of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) that causes shortness of breath ...

Jasmine Harvey, 21, was born with the complex congenital heart condition tetralogy of Fallot and underwent open-heart surgery at St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital when she was just 4-months-old. This ...

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 term ‘pulmonary’ refers to the lungs and ‘atresia’ means missing, so pulmonary atresia is a congenital heart defect in which the pulmonary valve of the infant is missing. The pulmonary valve ...