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
The impact of mitral valve morphology on the long-term outcome of mitral balloon valvuloplasty
โ Scribed by Mohamed Eid Fawzy; Mohamed Shoukri; Walid Hassan; Vijayaraghavan Nambiar; Miltiadis Stefadouros; Charles C. Canver,
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 218 KB
- Volume
- 69
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1522-1946
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