There are a few valves out there that can be placed via the percutaneousapproach. Two of the valves are the Medtronic Melody valve and the Edwards SAPIEN valve,both of which can be placed in the pulmonary valve position. The SAPIEN valve can be placedin the aortic position as well. The Melody was designed by Phillip Bonhoeffer and consists of aharvested, “valved, bovine jugular vein sewn into a bare metal stent” (Kenny & Hijazi, 2013,p.795). It received regulatory approval in 2006 and since then, more than 7,000 implants within165 centers worldwide have been conducted (Ringewald & Suh, 2014).The Edwards SAPIENvalve is the alternative to the Melody and is made from “bovine pericardial leaflets sewn into aballoon expandable stent” (Singh, Olsten, & Horlick, 2012, p.207).The stents with which bothvalves are mounted are radiopaque and can be easily seen under fluoroscopy when preparing fordeployment. The TVR approach, in conjunction with cardiac fluoroscopy, for the treatment
There are a few valves out there that can be placed via the percutaneousapproach. Two of the valves are the Medtronic Melody valve and the Edwards SAPIEN valve,both of which can be placed in the pulmonary valve position. The SAPIEN valve can be placedin the aortic position as well. The Melody was designed by Phillip Bonhoeffer and consists of aharvested, “valved, bovine jugular vein sewn into a bare metal stent” (Kenny & Hijazi, 2013,p.795). It received regulatory approval in 2006 and since then, more than 7,000 implants within165 centers worldwide have been conducted (Ringewald & Suh, 2014).The Edwards SAPIENvalve is the alternative to the Melody and is made from “bovine pericardial leaflets sewn into aballoon expandable stent” (Singh, Olsten, & Horlick, 2012, p.207).The stents with which bothvalves are mounted are radiopaque and can be easily seen under fluoroscopy when preparing fordeployment. The TVR approach, in conjunction with cardiac fluoroscopy, for the treatment