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Does the use of echocardiographic scoring and clinical predictors identify patients who will obtain the best outcome from percutaneous mitral balloon valvuloplasty?
Does the use of echocardiographic scoring and clinical predictors identify patients who will obtain the best outcome from percutaneous mitral balloon valvuloplasty?
Echocardiographic scoring combined with clinical and morphological predictors helps identify patients most likely to benefit from percutaneous mitral balloon valvuloplasty.
May aid PMV candidate selection with Echo-Sc; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation before practice change.
The immediate and long-term outcome of patients undergoing PMV is multifactorial. The use of the Echo-Sc in conjunction with other clinical and morphological predictors of PMV outcome allows identification of patients who will obtain the best outcome from PMV.
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