A revolutionary prosthetic pulmonary valve replacement, known as the Autus Valve, designed at Boston Children’s Hospotal (Boston,MA,USA;www.childrenshospital.org) specifically for pediatric patients can expand over time inside a child’s anatomy.

The valve can be fitted to the child’s individual body size and also adjusted for size if required through a minimally-invasive transcatheter balloon dilation procedure to maintain blood flow.

This could eliminate the need to perform invasive replacement surgeries every few years as the child will not require another replacement procedure until reaching adulthood.