3D echocardiography to direct mitral valvuloplasty. Surgeon's view demonstrates the relationship of the Inoue (Toray Industries, NY, USA) balloon (arrowhead) to the mitral valve orifice (arrow ...

Percutaneous balloon mitral valvuloplasty using Inoue technique: a multicenter study of 4832 patients in China. Am Heart J.1995; 129:1187–1204. Google Scholar 3 Chen C-R, Cheng TO, Chen J-Y, et al.

A study is reported of an annual follow-up over a 15- to 20-year period of the survivors of the first 1,000 patients undergoing closed mitral valvuloplasty for mitral stenosis. In addition to a report ...

Mitral valve surgery has changed considerably in the past decades and is now indicated mostly for pure or predominant mitral regurgitation. This is the result of the regression of rheumatic disease, ...

An 80-year-old man has undergone a groundbreaking cardiac procedure at the Cardiocenter in Santiago de Cuba, marking an ...

Objective The optimal treatment of patients with acute and severe decompensation of aortic stenosis is unclear due to recent advances in transcatheter interventions and supportive therapies. Our aim ...

Kent W. Dauterman, MD, Andrew D. Michaels, MD, Thomas A. Ports, MD Disclosures Am J Geriatr Cardiol. 2003;12 (3) ...

The heart’s four valves – the mitral, aortic, pulmonary, and tricuspid – open and close to move blood around the body. If a valve becomes damaged or stretched, it can also become leaky.

Original Article from The New England Journal of Medicine — Cardiotomy and Valvulotomy for Mitral Stenosis; Experimental Observations and Clinical Notes Concerning an Operated Case with Recovery ...

Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) has transformed the treatment of aortic stenosis.1 A series of strategy trials comparing TAVI with surgical aortic valve replacement established TAVI as ...

Median follow-up at 77.0 months (72.6–81.5) showed no significant difference in all-cause mortality (33.2% vs 40.4%, P=0.586) or late aortic valve (AV)–related events, including myocardial infarction, ...