20. Immediate EIN-hospital results of percutaneous transvenous mitral commissurotomy in patients with mitral restenosis after closed mitral commissurotomy

Rheumatic mitral stenosis is a very common problem in our population having an incidence of 54 percent among rheumatic heart disease with a female preponderance of 2:1. Percutaneous transvenous initral conimissurotomy (PTMC) using an Inoue balloon catheter is of established efficacy and safety and i...

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Main Author: D.M.T. Rahman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Saudi Heart Association 2016-07-01
Series:Journal of the Saudi Heart Association
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1016731516300422