Balloon mitral valvuloplasty: Our experience with a modified technique of crossing the mitral valve in difficult cases

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Diagnosis

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 23-26

  Manjunath, C N ^a   Srinivasa, K H ^a   Patil, C B ^a   Venkatesh, H V ^a   Bhoopal, T S ^a   Dhanalakshmi, C ^a  

^a SRI JAYADEVA INSTITUTE OF CARDIOVASCULAR SCIENCES AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Crossing the mitral valve; Percutaneous mitral commissurotomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLE EXTRASYSTOLE; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE COMMISSUROTOMY; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; TRANSLUMINAL VALVULOPLASTY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031918670     PISSN: 00986569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0304(199805)44:1<23::AID-CCD6>3.0.CO;2-9     Document Type: Article

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