Melody valve insertion for relief of "Tricuspid" stenosis in an unbalanced atrioventricular septal defect

Samuel Menahem; Philip A Roberts; David Tanous

doi:10.1017/S1047951121002419

Melody valve insertion for relief of "Tricuspid" stenosis in an unbalanced atrioventricular septal defect

Cardiol Young. 2022 Jan;32(1):135-137. doi: 10.1017/S1047951121002419. Epub 2021 Jun 29.

Authors

Samuel Menahem^{1

2}, Philip A Roberts³, David Tanous^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
² School of Clinical Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
³ Heart Centre for Children, The Children's Hospital Westmead, Sydney, Australia.
⁴ Department of Cardiology, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, Australia.

PMID: 34183082
DOI: 10.1017/S1047951121002419

Abstract

A Melody valve was successfully placed across a very stenotic right-sided component of a common atrioventricular valve because of ongoing troublesome arrhythmias in a young woman with an unbalanced atrioventricular septal defect, a very dilated right atrium and a hypoplastic right ventricle. Four years later, she remains well.

Keywords: Melody valve insertion; Transcatheter valve implantation; congenital heart disease; stenotic right atrioventricular valve; unbalanced atrioventricular septal defect.

MeSH terms

Constriction, Pathologic
Female
Heart Septal Defects* / surgery
Heart Valves
Humans
Tricuspid Valve Stenosis*

Supplementary concepts

Atrioventricular Septal Defect