What does PVS stand for?

Pulmonary Valve Stenosis (cardiac disease)

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Samples in periodicals archive:

8) Calcium occasionally occurs in the pulmonary valve after balloon valvuloplasty for pulmonary valve stenosis.

Detecting cardiac abnormalities on routine chest CT

I was born with pulmonary valve stenosis which was mended at Manchester RoyalInfirmary in 1965 and hasn't troubled me since.

Good job I learned to laugh at life's small problems; Short story: ...

Weeks before Elizabeth's birth, Carol's 12-year-old daughter, Sarah, was diagnosed with the same pulmonary valve stenosis, but her heart valve was only slightly obstructed and did not require treatment.

Family victims of nature's cruel quirk; Carol Gibbs has four ...

Mrs Middleton had pulmonary valve stenosis, which caused one of the main valves of her heart to be narrowed.

I'd taken some clothes for our new twins to hospital. When I got ...

A post mortem revealed she had pulmonary valve stenosis - a condition which narrows one of the main valves of her heart.

Natural causes verdict on mum; CORONER SAYS HOSPITAL NOT EXONERATED ...

A post mortem revealed she had pulmonary valve stenosis (PVS) - a narrowing defect which causes the heart to become short of blood.

HOW DID MEDICS LET MUM OF TWINS DIE?; Hospital should have spotted ...

She had severe pulmonary valve stenosis u a condition which caused one of the main valves of her heart to be narrowed.

Hospital 'missed chances' to save mother of twins; Her death from ...