Why the study?
Does mitral commissurotomy improve long-term symptoms in patients with uncomplicated mitral stenosis?
Population
200 patients with mitral stenosis uncomplicated by any other significant valvular lesion, living five or…
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
five or more years
Authors
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May support long-term symptom relief after mitral commissurotomy despite variable objective changes; hypothesis-generating and needs randomized confirmation.
Does mitral commissurotomy improve long-term symptoms in patients with uncomplicated mitral stenosis?
Mitral commissurotomy provides significant long-term subjective symptomatic relief in patients with uncomplicated mitral stenosis, even without marked changes in objective cardiologic findings.
William Likoff (1958) studied this question.
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