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Fetal Aortic Valvuloplasty: State of the Art

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The most commonly performed fetal cardiac intervention (FCI) is aortic balloon valvuloplasty. The primary aim of fetal aortic valvuloplasty is to modify the in utero natural history of severe aortic stenosis, characterized by left heart growth arrest, and prevent progression to hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS).

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  1. Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Istituto Policlinico San Donato IRCCS, Via Morandi 30, San Donato Milanese, 20097, Italy

    Francesca R. Pluchinotta MD

  2. Department of Cardiology, Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, 02115, USA

    Wayne Tworetzky

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  1. IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, San Donato Milanese, Italy

    Gianfranco Butera

  2. Pediatric Cardiology, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, USA

    John Cheatham

  3. Instituto Dante Pazzanese de Cardiologia and Hospital do Coração, São Paulo, SP, Brazil, Sao Paulo, Brazil

    Carlos AC Pedra

  4. Giessen Hospital, Giessen, Hessen, Germany

    Dietmar Schranz

  5. Linz University, Linz, Austria

    Gerald Tulzer

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Pluchinotta, F.R., Tworetzky, W. (2016). Fetal Aortic Valvuloplasty: State of the Art. In: Butera, G., Cheatham, J., Pedra, C., Schranz, D., Tulzer, G. (eds) Fetal and Hybrid Procedures in Congenital Heart Diseases. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40088-4_8

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