The purpose of this study is to report the long-term follow-up outcome of patients undergoing percutaneous transvenous mitral commissurotomy (PTMC). The follow-up of 68 of 82 (83%) consecutive patients undergoing successful PTMC (mitral valve area of more than 1.5 cm(2) without major complications)
Percutaneous transvenous mitral commissurotomy: Immediate and long-term follow-up results
β Scribed by Ramesh Arora; Gurcharan Singh Kalra; Sandeep Singh; Saibal Mukhopadhyay; Ashish Kumar; Jagdish Chander Mohan; Madhuri Nigam
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 72 KB
- Volume
- 55
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1522-1946
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