Why the study?
Does balloon mitral valvuloplasty improve global and regional biventricular function measured by 2D strain in patients with mitral stenosis?
Population
32 patients with mitral stenosis (MS) and 30 healthy subjects
Comparison
Balloon mitral valvuloplasty (BMV) vs Baseline values (pre-BMV) and healthy controls
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
3 months
Authors
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May support early strain monitoring post-BMV in mitral stenosis; hypothesis-generating for randomized outcome trials.
Does balloon mitral valvuloplasty improve global and regional biventricular function measured by 2D strain in patients with mitral stenosis?
Balloon mitral valvuloplasty significantly improves subclinical biventricular systolic dysfunction in patients with mitral stenosis, as measured by 2D strain echocardiography.
Roushdy et al. (2015) studied this question.
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