Echocardiographic Criteria in Selection of Patients for Percutaneous Mitral Commissurotomy
Population
Patients being considered for percutaneous mitral commissurotomy (PMC)
Design
Review
Authors
Discussion
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Implication
Supports echocardiography for percutaneous mitral commissurotomy selection; leaves open prospective validation of echo scores in contemporary cohorts.
Structured PICO
P
Population
Patients being considered for percutaneous mitral commissurotomy (PMC)
I
Intervention
Echocardiographic evaluation (including transesophageal echocardiography and echo scoring systems)
Echocardiography plays a crucial role in selecting candidates for percutaneous mitral commissurotomy by assessing severity, ruling out contraindications, and predicting procedural outcomes using echo scores.
Cite This Study
Garbarz et al. (1999) studied this question.