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Phonocardiography was discussed as a potential objective measure of surgical success in mitral stenosis, though no quantitative results are provided in the truncated abstract.
Phonocardiography is proposed as a potentially less cumbersome objective measure of surgical success in mitral stenosis compared to catheterization.
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Phonocardiography remains unproven for quantifying mitral stenosis surgical success; leaves open its role pending rigorous validation studies.
THE widespread employment of surgery for the relief of mitral stenosis has made it desirable to have some objective measure of the success of the operation. At times the patient's subjective observations after surgery have been more enthusiastic than the data obtained by precise methods appear to justify.1 Some of the most valuable information regarding changes in circulatory dynamics before and after fracture of the valve has been afforded by catheterization,2 as well as by direct puncture of the chambers of the left side of the heart at the time of surgery.3 These methods, however, are cumbersome. It would be . . .
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Ernest Craige (1957) studied Mitral stenosis. Phonocardiography was evaluated. Phonocardiography was discussed as a potential objective measure of surgical success in mitral stenosis, though no quantitative results are provided in the truncated abstract.
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