Guide-wire Perforation and Valvuloplasty of the Atretic Pulmonary Valve in an Underweight Newborn

Pulmonary valvuloplasty was performed in a 51- day-old, 2 160-g baby wi th the diagnosis of pulmonary atresia with intact ventricular septuın after perforating the pulınonary valve with the stiff end of a guide-wire. This type of technique and perforation of pulmonary valve in such a smail baby has not been reported before in Turkey.