Double Inlet Left Ventricle (DILV) Treatment Cost at University Hospital Dusseldorf

Double Inlet Left Ventricle (DILV) is a heart defect that is present from birth (congenital). It affects the valves and chambers of the heart. Babies born with this condition have only one working pumping chamber (ventricle) in the heart.

Surgeries most commonly performed to treat double inlet left ventricle lead up to a surgery called the Fontan procedure. If blood flow to the pulmonary artery is restricted, a small tube called a shunt can be surgically placed from an artery attached to the aorta to the pulmonary artery.