Balloon valvuloplasty may be useful as a bridge to aortic valve replacement in hemodynamically unstable patients, in patients undergoing emergent noncardiac surgery, and in patients with severe ...

Balloon valvuloplasty is used to increase ... people who have aortic stenosis (narrowing of the aortic valve) but are not able to undergo surgery, and some patients with pulmonic stenosis ...

Because of the possible need to convert to an open procedure ... physician threads a catheter across the aortic valve and performs balloon aortic valvuloplasty. The physician then positions ...

Fetal balloon aortic valvuloplasty, a high-risk but potentially life-saving procedure, typically has a success rate of about 70 per cent . However, using a closure device in this context is a ...

In fact, at 6 months after valvuloplasty about 50% of patients have completely restenosed their aortic valve to the same extent as before the procedure. The procedural mortality rate is 2-5% ...

Percutaneous balloon mitral valvuloplasty is a procedure used to dilate the mitral valve in the setting of rheumatic mitral valve stenosis. A catheter is inserted into the femoral vein ...

"There are four valves in the heart — aortic, pulmonary ... But if the condition is severe open-heart surgery is necessary. Balloon pulmonary valvuloplasty treatment is a minimal invasive ...

A process used in structural heart interventions that includes mitral valvuloplasty ... commenced the first subject procedures last month with its transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI ...