Percutaneous Mitral and Aortic Balloon Valvuloplasty

摘要: Before 1982, cardiac surgery was the conventional form of treatment for symptomatic stenotic valvular heart disease lesions. Today, percutaneous balloon dilatation valves is being used in many centers patients with pulmonic, mitral, aortic, and tricuspid stenosis. Since its introduction 1984 by Inoue et al. mitral commissurotomy (PMV) has been successfully as an alternative to open or closed surgical rheumatic PMV produces good immediate hemodynamic outcome, low complication rate, clinical improvement majority safe effective provides sustained The long-term results appear be similar those commissurotomy. preferred therapy relief stenosis a selected group