Percutaneous Balloon Valvuloplasty Compared with Open Surgical Commissurotomy for Mitral Stenosis

Percutaneous balloon mitral commissurotomy (valvuloplasty), first described in 1984, 1 has had good short- and intermediate-term results 2 – 6 . In a randomized trial in patients with favorable anatomical features, 7 we reported that the outcome of balloon valvuloplasty was similar to that of closed...

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Veröffentlicht in:The New England journal of medicine 1994-10, Vol.331 (15), p.961-967
Hauptverfasser: Reyes, Vincent P, Raju, Raghava, Raju, B. Soma, Wynne, Joshua, Stephenson, Larry W, Fromm, Barbara S, Rajagopal, P, Mehta, Prabodh, Singh, Shailender, Rao, D. Prasada, Satyanarayana, P.V, Turi, Zoltan G
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