The efficacy and safety of percutaneous transvenous mitral commissurotomy performed by the Inoue technique is well known. In cases with critical mitral stenosis and when there is abnormal bulge of the interatrial septum, the usual direct method of crossing the mitral valve may not be successful. In
A simple technique to cross mitral valve during percutaneous balloon mitral valvuloplasty
โ Scribed by Kerkar, Prafulla ;Lokhandwala, Yash ;Vora, Amit ;Dalvi, Bharat ;Singh, Jagmeet ;Kulkarni, Hema
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1994
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 199 KB
- Volume
- 31
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0098-6569
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