Percutaneous transvenous mitral commissurotomy in patients with severe mitral stenosis and acute rheumatic fever

Pediatric Cardiology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 347-350

  Kothari, S S ^a   Ramakrishnan, S ^a   Juneja, R ^a   Yadav, R ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Acute rheumatic fever; Mitral stenosis; Mitral valvoplasty; Percutaneous transvenous commissurotomy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; MALE; MITRAL VALVE COMMISSUROTOMY; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RESTENOSIS; RHEUMATIC FEVER; SCHOOL CHILD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; RECURRENCE; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33744801115     PISSN: 01720643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00246-005-1255-2     Document Type: Article

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