Percutaneous mitral balloon valvotomy (PMV) has been accepted as an alternative to surgical mitral commissurotomy in the treatment of patients with symptomatic rheumatic mitral stenosis. Previous studies have demonstrated that PMV produces good immediate and long-term follow-up results in a selected group of patients with mitral stenosis.1-4 Hemodynamic and clinical improvement is achieved in t...

BACKGROUND Long-term follow-up after percutaneous mitral commissurotomy enables predictive factors of late results to be identified. METHODS AND RESULTS Late results of percutaneous mitral commissurotomy were assessed in 1024 consecutive patients. Good immediate results, defined as valve area ≥1.5 cm(2) without mitral regurgitation >2/4, were obtained in 912 patients (89%). These 912 patients...

Background—Long-term follow-up after percutaneous mitral commissurotomy enables predictive factors of late results to be identified. Methods and Results—Late results of percutaneous mitral commissurotomy were assessed in 1024 consecutive patients. Good immediate results, defined as valve area 1.5 cm without mitral regurgitation 2/4, were obtained in 912 patients (89%). These 912 patients were r...

Background—Long-term follow-up after percutaneous mitral commissurotomy enables predictive factors of late results to be identified. Methods and Results—Late results of percutaneous mitral commissurotomy were assessed in 1024 consecutive patients. Good immediate results, defined as valve area 1.5 cm without mitral regurgitation 2/4, were obtained in 912 patients (89%). These 912 patients were r...

INTRODUCTION Percutaneous transvenous mitral commissurotomy (PTMC) is one of the nonsurgical commissurotomy in patients with hemodynamically significant mitral stenosis. The aim of the present study is to assess the immediate, intermediate and long term outcomes of PTMC in relation to initial mitral valve score and to assess its impact on mitral valve area (MVA), clinical and hemodynamic parame...

OBJECTIVES This study sought to assess late functional results after successful percutaneous mitral commissurotomy and to determine their predictors. BACKGROUND Few studies have reported late results of percutaneous mitral commissurotomy or have analyzed their late results regardless of immediate results, despite the fact that late deterioration may well be related either to a decrease in val...

Evaluation of mitral flow dynamics during exercise is critically important in patients who receive percutaneous transvenous mitral commissurotomy (PTMC) because limited mitral flow during exercise provokes hemodynamic deterioration and involves cardiogenic symptoms in patients with mitral stenosis. To examine mitral flow dynamics during exercise, we applied continuous wave Doppler technique in ...