Andersons pediatric cardiology 1107

This chapter discusses pulmonary stenosis as an isolated finding.. Where pulmonary stenosis exists as part of a more complex anomaly, such as tetralogy of Fallot, the reader is directed

Jeffrey D Dayton, Ralf J Holzer, Robert H Anderson

This chapter discusses pulmonary stenosis as an isolated finding Where pulmonary stenosis exists as part of a more complex anomaly, such as

tetralogy of Fallot, the reader is directed to the complete descriptions found

in the relevant chapters

Keywords

Pulmonary valve stenosis; congenital heart disease; pulmonary

valvuloplasty

This chapter discusses pulmonary stenosis as an isolated finding When

pulmonary stenosis exists as part of a more complex anomaly, such as tetralogy

of Fallot, the reader is directed to the complete descriptions found in the relevant chapters

Pulmonary stenosis is the third most common congenital cardiac malformation

In a large prospective study of all live-born infants that also included data from the autopsies of stillborn infants,1 the total incidence of congenitally malformed hearts was 6.6 per 1000 live births Of these, pulmonary stenosis accounted for 5.8% Half of all congenitally malformed hearts include pulmonary stenosis as a component of the defect