Medtronic Melody? Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve …. Improving the Quality of Life

摘要

The patient is a 34 year old female with Down’s Syndrome and complete AV septal defect, pulmonary atresia, and VSD who has been treated her entire life at C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor. She had palliative bilateral modified BlalockTaussig shunts (MBTS) as an infant and in 1987 had complete AV septal defect repair with RVPA conduit, patch VSD closure, along with closure of both MBTS. Ten years later, the degenerating RV-PA conduit was replaced with a 24 mm Hancock porcine valve conduit.