Population
220 consecutive patients with severe symptomatic mitral stenosis, mean age 30 +/- 10 years, 161 females and…
Design
Case_series
Follow-up
mean 32 +/- 12 months
Authors
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PMV may relieve hemodynamics in mitral stenosis; case-level data leave durability, safety, and generalizability open for prospective study.
Percutaneous mitral balloon valvotomy using the Inoue balloon catheter is highly successful in treating severe symptomatic mitral stenosis, providing significant hemodynamic improvement with low complication rates.
Fawzy et al. (1996) studied this question.
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