Why the study?
Can echocardiography be used to accurately determine the severity of mitral stenosis in patients with solitary mitral stenosis?
Population
Patients with solitary mitral stenosis
Comparison
Echocardiography vs Cardiac catheterization and open-heart surgery
Design
Review
Authors
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May support echocardiography for mitral stenosis severity assessment; leaves open prospective validation against contemporary standards.
Can echocardiography be used to accurately determine the severity of mitral stenosis in patients with solitary mitral stenosis?
Echocardiography is a safe, bedside procedure that can reliably determine the severity of mitral stenosis by measuring the diastolic slope of the anterior mitral leaflet.
Bernard L. Segal (1966) studied this question.
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