Percutaneous transseptal balloon mitral valvuloplasty: Transfemoral vs. transjugular approaches
β Scribed by Tsung O. Cheng
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 23 KB
- Volume
- 49
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1522-1946
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The feasibility of a transjugular approach to septal puncture and Inoue-balloon mitral valvuloplasty (BMV) was studied in 20 patients with severe mitral stenosis and varying degrees of anatomic atrial distortion. Left atrial entry by transjugular septal puncture was achieved without difficulty and B
I read with interest the article by Hildick-Smith and Shapiro [1] on balloon mitral valvuloplasty employing double transseptal puncture. In four patients with mechanical aortic prostheses which could not be safely crossed by retrograde arterial catheterization, the authors used double transseptal pu