Non-surgical transvascular implantation of a new type of pulmonary valve. First such procedures in Poland

On the 29th April 2011, Poland’s first transvascular non-surgical pulmonary valve implantations, with the use of a new type of valve, were perfomed at the Institute of Cardiology. The method of treatment was used in patients who had developed right ventricular outflow tract dysfunction after a previous surgical correction of a heart defect.

The valve, which was implanted now, is used for transvascular therapy of aortic defect. Its dimensions (23 and 26 mm) allow minimally invasive surgery transvascular procedures to be performed in a much larger group of patients with pulmonary valve dysfunction, for whom surgery has been the only option so far.