Percutaneous Balloon Mitral Mitral Stenosis

Valvuloplasty

in Juvenile Rheumatic

Savitri Shrivastava. DM, Vishwa Dev, DM, Ramachandran S. Vasan, DM, Gladwin S. Das, DM, and Meera Rajani, MD e report here results and follow-up data of 34

loons, 15 mm in size, were used; for a body surface area of 1.25 to 1.5 m2, 15- and 18-mm sized balloons nosis (MS) (juvenile MS),’ who underwent percutane- were used; and for a body surface area of 2 1.5 m2, 2 ous balloon mitral valvuloplasty at our medical center. balloons, 18 mm in size, were used. Balloon valvuloThe patients included 20 girls and 14 boys aged 16 plasty resulted in a significant decrease in the transmitral end-diastolic pressure gradient (Figure I ), f 2 years (range 10 to 19) who had severe rheumatic MS with sign$cant pulmonary artery hypertension from 23 f 6 to 8 f 6 mm Hg (p

Percutaneous balloon mitral valvuloplasty in juvenile rheumatic mitral stenosis.

Percutaneous Balloon Mitral Mitral Stenosis Valvuloplasty in Juvenile Rheumatic Savitri Shrivastava. DM, Vishwa Dev, DM, Ramachandran S. Vasan, DM,...
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