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

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 ...

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, ...

Valvuloplasty is now widely accepted as the best method of treatment of mitral valve regurgitation, but repair for rheumatic mitral valve disease is commonly believed to yield poorer results by ...

Hemodynamic studies including simultaneous right heart, transseptal left heart, and retrograde left heart catheterizations were done on 35 patients before and at least 6 months after instrumental ...

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

Background The presence of mitral valve prolapse (MVP) in congenital heart disease (CHD) patients is not well described. Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) is the most common cyanotic CHD associated with ...