Pedra C A, Yoo S J, Söderberg B, Freedom R M
Division of Cardiology, Department of Paediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, 555 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8, Canada.
Pediatr Cardiol. 2001 Jul-Aug;22(4):359-62. doi: 10.1007/s002460010248.
We report a case of critical pulmonary valve stenosis in which congenital aneurysm of the membranous septum ruptured spontaneously after balloon dilatation of the pulmonary valve. It is considered that the chronic mechanical trauma with phasic protrusion and collapse of the aneurysm during the cardiac cycles was responsible for an aneurysm rupture.