Dilator Inserted through the Avascular Tip of the Left Ventricle and Positioned in the Valve Orifice by a Finger in the Left Atrium. The dilator is opened cautiously to a previously adjusted limit of ...

Dear Doctors: At age 51, I was diagnosed with severe rheumatic mitral stenosis. After a second round of tests, treatment was changed from open-heart surgery to balloon valvuloplasty. What can I do to ...

Multivalvular disease (MVD) is a prevalent form of valvular heart disease; rheumatic heart disease is the predominant aetiology in developing countries, whereas degenerative aetiologies are ...

Q At age 51, I was diagnosed with severe rheumatic mitral stenosis. After a second round of tests, treatment was changed from open-heart surgery to balloon valvuloplasty. What can I do to help the ...

Although balloon valvuloplasty is an accepted treatment for symptomatic moderate mitral stenosis, patients with asymptomatic disease are often managed with ‘watchful waiting’ alone. A new study ...

Though commonly observed in mitral stenosis, the opening snap (together with a characteristic diastolic murmur) was encountered in 2 patients of Group B. One had nonvalvular heart disease, and the ...

DEAR DOCTORS: At age 51, I was diagnosed with severe rheumatic mitral stenosis. After a second round of tests, treatment was changed from open-heart surgery to balloon valvuloplasty. What can I do to ...

Dear Doctors: At age 51, I was diagnosed with severe rheumatic mitral stenosis. After a second round of tests, treatment was changed from open-heart surgery to balloon valvuloplasty. What can I do to ...

Dear Doctors: At age 51, I was diagnosed with severe rheumatic mitral stenosis. After a second round of tests, treatment was changed from open-heart surgery to balloon valvuloplasty. What can I do to ...

Should the mitral stenosis be corrected by mitral valve surgery, or percutaneous mitral valve balloon valvuloplasty? de Souza and his colleagues [1] studied this problem and concluded that balloon ...