Cardio-embolic stroke due to valve tissue embolization during Percutaneous Transseptal Mitral Commissurotomy (PTMC)
Percutaneous Transseptal Mitral Commissurotomy (PTMC) has replaced surgical commissurotomy as a treatment of choice in selected patients of rheumatic mitral stenosis. Various randomized trials have shown PTMC to be equal or superior to surgical commissurotomy in terms of hemodynamic improvement as w...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2014-09-01
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| Series: | Indian Heart Journal |
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| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019483214001953 |