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Percutaneous balloon mitral valvuloplasty by the transseptal technique in patients with membranous obstruction of the interior vena cava

โœ Scribed by Cheng, Tsung O.

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1996
Tongue
English
Weight
65 KB
Volume
37
Category
Article
ISSN
0098-6569

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โœฆ Synopsis

Letter to the Editor

Percutaneous Balloon Mitral Valvuloplasty by the Transseptal Technique in Patients With Membranous Obstruction of the Inferior Vena Cava TO THE EDITOR I read with interest the recent letter to the editor by Vora et al. (11, who resorted to the retrograde Babic technique of percutaneous balloon mitral valvuloplasty in a patient with inferior vena cava obstruction. To the list of causes of inferior vena cava obstructions enumerated by the authors should be added the congenital membranous obstruction of inferior vena cava [2-101. My colleagues from China and I have successfully treated the latter condition by the Inoue balloon technique with excellent early [5,8,9] and late [lo] results.

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