PERCUTANEOUS DOUBLE-BALLOON MITRAL VALVOTOMY FOR RHEUMATIC MITRAL-VALVE STENOSIS

The Lancet

Volumn 327, Issue 8484, 1986, Pages 757-761

  Al Zaibag, Muayed ^a   Al Kasab, Saad ^a   Ribeiro, PauloA ^a   Al Fagih, MohamedR ^a  

^a ARMED FORCES HOSPITAL   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BALLOON CATHETER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HEART; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERAPY; TRANSLUMINAL VALVULOPLASTY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; BLOOD PRESSURE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMODYNAMICS; HEPARIN; HUMAN; INFUSIONS, PARENTERAL; MALE; METHODS; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; PHONOCARDIOGRAPHY; PREMEDICATION; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; WARFARIN;

EID: 0022504484     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(86)91780-0     Document Type: Article

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