Contemporary criteria for the selection of patients for percutaneous balloon mitral valvuloplasty

Heart

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 401-404

  Prendergast, Bernard D ^a   Shaw, T R D ^a   Iung, B ^b   Vahanian, A ^b   Northridge, D B ^a  

^a WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b BICHAT HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CALCIFICATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM THROMBOSIS; HUMAN; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; PATIENT CODING; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION;

EID: 0036235372     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/heart.87.5.401     Document Type: Review

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