IV-18 Reoperation for mitral restenosis

Reoperation for Mitral Stenosis.

SIGNIFICANT clinical improvement after valvuloplasty for mitral stenosis can be anticipated in 70 per cent of group III patients followed 5 years and 52 per cent of those in group IV1 Nevertheless, the first 1,000 patients in our series have been followed from 2 to 9 years, and some degree of deterioration after an initially favorable result was found in 228. Critical scrutiny of the factors in...

Reoperation for mitral stenosis.

SIGNIFICANT clinical improvement after valvuloplasty for mitral stenosis can be anticipated in 70 per cent of group III patients followed 5 years and 52 per cent of those in group IV1 Nevertheless, the first 1,000 patients in our series have been followed from 2 to 9 years, and some degree of deterioration after an initially favorable result was found in 228. Critical scrutiny of the factors in...

Reoperation for Mitral Stenosis

SIGNIFICANT clinical improvement after valvuloplasty for mitral stenosis can be anticipated in 70 per cent of group III patients followed 5 years and 52 per cent of those in group IV1 Nevertheless, the first 1,000 patients in our series have been followed from 2 to 9 years, and some degree of deterioration after an initially favorable result was found in 228. Critical scrutiny of the factors in...

Mitral restenosis.

The Cardiogram of Mitral Restenosis.

The cardiogram of mitral stenosis, with emphasis on right ventricular hypertrophy and P wave changes before and after mitral valvotomy has been studied previously by Mounsey (1957) and by Rodriguez Torres et al. (1959). Cardiographic evidence of right ventricular hypertrophy that recurred after valvotomy and increased when restenosis occurred has been presented by Wilcken (1960). The present st...