String-plucking as a mechanism of chordal rupture during balloon mitral valvuloplasty using Inoue balloon catheter

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 213-217

  Chern, Ming Shyan ^a,b   Chang, Hern Jia ^a   Lin, Fun Chung ^a   Wu, Delon ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Mitral regurgitation; Mitral stenosis; Mitral valvuloplasty

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BALLOON CATHETER; CASE REPORT; CHORDA TENDINEA RUPTURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MITRAL VALVE COMMISSUROTOMY; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

BALLOON DILATATION; CALCINOSIS; CHORDAE TENDINEAE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; RUPTURE;

EID: 0032994476     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1522-726X(199906)47:2<213::AID-CCD20>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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