Feasibility, safety, and morphologic predictors of outcome of repeat percutaneous balloon mitral commissurotomy

Yoav Turgeman, Shaul Atar, Khalid Suleiman, Alexander Feldman, Lev Bloch, Mohamed Jabaren, Tiberio Rosenfeld

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Abstract

Early and mid-term results of repeat percutaneous balloon mitral commissurotomy (PBMC) were analyzed in 35 patients with symptomatic valvular restenosis: 12 patients (34%) after first successful PBMC and 23 patients (66%) after successful surgical closed mitral commissurotomy. Twenty-one patients had bilateral fused commissures, and 14 patients had unilateral or bilateral split commissures. Mitral valve area gain was significantly greater in the group with fused commissures compared with the group with split commissures (0.6 ± 0.2 vs 0.3 ± 0.2 cm2, respectively, p = 0.04).

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)989-991
Number of pages3
JournalAmerican Journal of Cardiology
Volume95
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - 15 Apr 2005
Externally publishedYes

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