Effect of percutaneous baloon mitral valvotomy on pulmonary venous flow in severe mitral stenosis

East African Medical Journal

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 28-30

  Yonga, G O ^a,d   Jowi, C A ^b   Bonhoeffer, P ^c  

^a Mater Hospital Heart Unit   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^c HÔPITAL NECKER ENFANTS MALADES   (France)

^d NONE   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIASTOLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT ATRIUM PRESSURE; HUMAN; LUNG BLOOD FLOW; MALE; MITRAL VALVE COMMISSUROTOMY; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; PULMONARY VEIN; SCHOOL CHILD; SYSTOLE; TRANSLUMINAL VALVULOPLASTY; BALLOON DILATATION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BALLOON DILATATION; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; PULMONARY VEINS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032587906     PISSN: 0012835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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