Pulmonary Valve Insufficiency

"Pulmonary Valve Insufficiency" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Backflow of blood from the PULMONARY ARTERY into the RIGHT VENTRICLE due to imperfect closure of the PULMONARY VALVE.

Descriptor ID	D011665
MeSH Number(s)	C14.280.484.660
Concept/Terms	Pulmonary Valve Insufficiency Pulmonary Valve Insufficiency Valve Regurgitation, Pulmonary Insufficiency, Pulmonary Valve Valve Insufficiency, Pulmonary Pulmonary Valve Regurgitation Pulmonary Regurgitation Incompetence, Pulmonary Valve Valve Incompetence, Pulmonary Pulmonary Valve Incompetence Regurgitation, Pulmonary Valve Regurgitation, Pulmonary

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Diseases [C]
Cardiovascular Diseases [C14]
Heart Diseases [C14.280]
Heart Valve Diseases [C14.280.484]
Pulmonary Valve Insufficiency [C14.280.484.660]

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Hainstock MR, Fleming G, Kim D, Aboulhosn J, Levi D, Krasuski R, Sommer R, Torres AJ, Gray R, Kereiakes D, Leventhal A, Gillespie M, Szeto W, Zajarias A, Shahanavaz S, Steinberg ZL, Jones TK, Mahadevan VS, Moore P, Elmariah S, Shirali G, Li W, Babaliaros V, Lim DS. Five-Year Outcomes for Patients With RVOT Dysfunction Treated With the SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve: A Pooled Analysis From the COMPASSION S3 Trial. Circ Cardiovasc Interv. 2026 May; 19(5):e016361.

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Torres AJ, Dimas VV, Shahanavaz S, Balzer D, Morgan G, Lim DS, Armstrong AK, Berman D, Babaliaros V, Kim D, Gillespie MJ, Sommer R, Aboulhosn J, Jones TK, Mahadevan VS, Stapleton G, Ma Y, Shirali G, Parthiban A, Blanke P, Leipsic J, Zahn E. Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve Implantation With the Alterra Adaptive Prestent and SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve: 3-Year Pooled Outcomes of the ALTERRA Trials. Circ Cardiovasc Interv. 2026 Apr; 19(4):e015873.

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Dimas VV, Babaliaros V, Kim D, Lim DS, Morgan G, Jones TK, Armstrong AK, Berman D, Aboulhosn J, Mahadevan VS, Gillespie MJ, Balzer D, Zellers T, Yu X, Shirali G, Parthiban A, Leipsic J, Blanke P, Zahn E, Shahanavaz S. Multicenter Pivotal Study of the Alterra Adaptive Prestent for the Treatment of Pulmonary Regurgitation. JACC Cardiovasc Interv. 2024 10 14; 17(19):2287-2297.

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Tang D, Del Nido PJ, Yang C, Zuo H, Huang X, Rathod RH, Gooty V, Tang A, Wu Z, Billiar KL, Geva T. Patient-Specific MRI-Based Right Ventricle Models Using Different Zero-Load Diastole and Systole Geometries for Better Cardiac Stress and Strain Calculations and Pulmonary Valve Replacement Surgical Outcome Predictions. PLoS One. 2016; 11(9):e0162986.

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Tang D, Yang C, Del Nido PJ, Zuo H, Rathod RH, Huang X, Gooty V, Tang A, Billiar KL, Wu Z, Geva T. Mechanical stress is associated with right ventricular response to pulmonary valve replacement in patients with repaired tetralogy of Fallot. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2016 Mar; 151(3):687-694.e3.

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Kesarwani M, Ports TA, Rao RK, Mahadevan VS. First-in-Human Transcatheter Pulmonic Valve Implantation Through a Tricuspid Valve Bioprosthesis to Treat Native Pulmonary Valve Regurgitation Caused by Carcinoid Syndrome. JACC Cardiovasc Interv. 2015 Aug 24; 8(10):e161-e163.

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Batra AS, McElhinney DB, Wang W, Zakheim R, Garofano RP, Daniels C, Yung D, Cooper DM, Rhodes J. Cardiopulmonary exercise function among patients undergoing transcatheter pulmonary valve implantation in the US Melody valve investigational trial. Am Heart J. 2012 Feb; 163(2):280-7.

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Geva T, Gauvreau K, Powell AJ, Cecchin F, Rhodes J, Geva J, del Nido P. Randomized trial of pulmonary valve replacement with and without right ventricular remodeling surgery. Circulation. 2010 Sep 14; 122(11 Suppl):S201-8.

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Harrild DM, Powell AJ, Tran TX, Trang TX, Geva T, Lock JE, Rhodes J, McElhinney DB. Long-term pulmonary regurgitation following balloon valvuloplasty for pulmonary stenosis risk factors and relationship to exercise capacity and ventricular volume and function. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2010 Mar 09; 55(10):1041-7.

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Warner KG, O'Brien PK, Rhodes J, Kaur A, Robinson DA, Payne DD. Expanding the indications for pulmonary valve replacement after repair of tetralogy of fallot. Ann Thorac Surg. 2003 Oct; 76(4):1066-71; discussion 1071-2.

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