Why the study?
What are the long-term functional results up to 20 years after percutaneous mitral commissurotomy?
What are the long-term functional results up to 20 years after percutaneous mitral commissurotomy?
Up to 20 years after percutaneous mitral commissurotomy, 30% of patients maintain good functional results, with outcomes strongly determined by age and the quality of immediate procedural results.
May support durability of percutaneous mitral commissurotomy in select patients; leaves open need for comparative trials.
Twenty years after percutaneous mitral commissurotomy in a population of patients with varied characteristics, 30% still had good functional results. Prediction of late functional results is multifactorial and strongly determined by age and the quality of immediate results. A simple validated scoring system is useful for estimating individual patient outcome.
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