Percutaneous Tricuspid Valve Implantation in a Fontan Patient With Congestive Heart Failure and Protein-Losing Enteropathy.

The article describes the case of a 47-year-old woman who was born with tricuspid atresia with normally connected great arteries without pulmonary stenosis. She had a Fontan-Bjork procedure when she was 14-years old and at age of 38 she had atrioventricular block for which a dual-chamber pacemaker system was implanted. In the last two years she had progressive heart failure and diarrhea and was clinically diagnosed with protein-losing enteropathy (PLE). The tricuspid valve function was restored by placement of a Melody transcatheter valve.