Medtronic received information that 9 years and 6 months post implant of this 22mm pulmonary valved conduit in a (b)(6)-year-old pediatric patient, there was mild pulmonary insufficiency, however the leaflets were functioning appropriately.The 22mm conduit was measured to be 19mm with a subvalvar obstruction which was thought to be a muscle bundle.The physician thought that since there was a complex lesion, distal to the conduit, primary intervention was necessary, and several balloon dilations of the lpa were performed, which relieved the gradient, however after 8 hours of complex intervention, the decision was made to delay conduit intervention since the gradient decreased to around 25mmhg, and the conduit remains implanted.No additional adverse patient effects were reported.
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