Contemporary criteria for the selection of patients for percutaneous balloon mitral valvuloplasty
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Contemporary criteria for the selection of patients for percutaneous balloon mitral valvuloplasty.
Commissural fusion is now recognised as the principal pathology underlying mitral stenosis, and commissural splitting underlies successful interventional treatment. Although the technique of surgical commissurotomy was first described as early as 1948, percutaneous commissurotomy became a feasible option with the advent of the Inoue balloon in 1984. Percutaneous balloon mitral valvuloplasty (PB...
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عنوان ژورنال: Heart
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0007-0769
DOI: 10.1136/heart.87.5.401