Effects of Balloon Pulmonary Valvuloplasty on Atrial Shunting

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  • Kin Hakutetsu
    Fourth Department of Internal Medicine, Shimane Medical University
  • Ishibashi Yutaka
    Fourth Department of Internal Medicine, Shimane Medical University
  • Tanabe Kazuaki
    Fourth Department of Internal Medicine, Shimane Medical University
  • Nakamura Kou
    Fourth Department of Internal Medicine, Shimane Medical University
  • Matsumoto Hiroshi
    Fourth Department of Internal Medicine, Shimane Medical University
  • Okada Seiji
    Fourth Department of Internal Medicine, Shimane Medical University
  • Sano Kazuya
    Fourth Department of Internal Medicine, Shimane Medical University
  • Shimada Toshio
    Fourth Department of Internal Medicine, Shimane Medical University
  • Morioka Shigefumi
    Cardiovascular Division, Kobe Municipal Hospital

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  • A Patient With Pulmonary Valve Stenosis and A Large Secundum Atrial Septal Defect

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Percutaneous balloon valvuloplasty has been established as an effective treatment for pulmonary valve stenosis (PS) in children and adults. However, there are few reports of the use of this technique in patients with other cardiac anomalies. We report the performance of balloon pulmonary valvuloplasty in a 72-year-old woman with a large atrial septal defect (ASD). This patient had a PS with a right ventricular pressure of 108/18 mmHg and a pulmonary arterial pressure of 42/21 mmHg, corresponding to a 66 mmHg pressure gradient. The ASD measured 32×27 mm. Balloon pulmonary valvuloplasty reduced the pressure gradient to 5 mmHg immediately after the procedure and to 2 mmHg 40 days after the procedure. The left-to-right shunt ratio was reduced from 17% before to 12% immediately after and to 36% 40 days after the procedure. In contrast, the right-to-left shunt ratio showed a transient increase from 16% before to 28% immediately after the procedure before decreasing to 11% 40 days after the procedure. The arterial blood oxygen tension was 53 Torr before, 46 Torr immediately after and 55 Torr 40 days after the procedure. The grade of heart failure decreased from New York Heart Association class IV before to class II in the chronic stage. These findings indicated that balloon pulmonary valvuloplasty in a patient with ASD transiently increased the right-to-left shunting associated with a decrease in oxygen tension, but that the change in the chronic stage was slight. In our patient with ASD valvuloplasty was useful in relieving the symptoms associated with elevated right ventricular pressure but could not reduce the hypoxemia caused by right-to-left shunting. In conclusion, valvuloplasty in patients with ASD should be considered as a preoperative treatment with the aim of reducing the risk of surgery and to treat symptoms in patients who refuse to undergo surgery. (Jpn Circ J 1997; 61: 192 - 196)

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