Cardiology in the Young

Table of Contents - August 2010 - Volume 20, Issue 04  

Brief Reports

First experience with a new drug-eluting balloon for the treatment of congenital pulmonary vein stenosis in a neonate

Goetz Christoph Muellera1 c1, Ali Dodge-Khatamia2 and Jochen Weila1

a1 Department of Paediatric Cardiology, University Heart Center Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

a2 Department of Congenital Cardiac Surgery, University Heart Center Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Abstract

Paclitaxel-eluting balloons are a new and innovative method in the treatment of in-stent stenosis and small vessel disease in adult cardiac pathology. The treatment of congenital pulmonary vein stenosis is difficult to manage, and results in a high mortality rate due to residual or recurrent stenosis. We report the first case of treatment for neonatal pulmonary vein restenosis with a paclitaxel-eluting balloon.

(Received November 18 2009)

(Accepted March 14 2010)

(Online publication June 02 2010)

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c1 Correspondence to: G. C. Mueller, MD, Department of Paediatric Cardiology, University Heart Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistraße 52, 20246, Hamburg/Germany. Tel: +49 (0)40 7410-53718; Fax: +49 (0)40 7410-53730; E-mail: go.mueller@uke.uni-hamburg.de

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