Volume 111, Nº 3, September 2018
DOI: http://www.dx.doi.org/10.5935/abc.20180151
CLINICORADIOLOGICAL CORRELATION
Case 5/2018 - Severe Pulmonary Valve Stenosis (PVS), Relieved by a Bouble-balloon Catheter, in a 68-year-old Woman
Edmar Atik
Alessandra Costa Barreto
Maria Angélica Binotto
Luiz Junya Kajita
Figure 2 – Cardiac angiography showing marked right ventricular hypertrophy in systole in A, and in diastole in B, with good ventricular contractility. Thinner contrast jet (arrow) passing through the stenotic pulmonary valve in B, before double-balloon valvuloplasty, in C, and after the procedure in D, with a thicker jet (arrow).
Keywords: Pulmonary Valve Stenosis; Cardiac Catheterization; Hypertrophy, Rigth Ventricular/physiopathology; Pulmonary Valve/surgery.