Balloon mitral valvuloplasty in the elderly
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Balloon mitral valvuloplasty in the elderly.
Balloon mitral valvuloplasty has, over the last 15 years, become an established interventional procedure. For patients with pliable uncalcified mitral stenosis, dilatation with the Inoue balloon is the intervention of choice, oVering results comparable to surgical commissurotomy. In the Western world, however, with the gradual extinction of rheumatic fever, patients with mitral stenosis are now...
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عنوان ژورنال: Heart
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0007-0769
DOI: 10.1136/heart.83.4.374