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Clinical Trial
. 2002;98(4):186-90.
doi: 10.1159/000067320.

Comparison between percutaneous balloon valvuloplasty and open commissurotomy for mitral stenosis. A prospective and randomized study

Luiz F Cardoso  1 , Max Grinberg, Miguel A Rati, Pablo M Pomerantzeff, Caio C J Medeiros, Flávio Tarasoutchi, Eulógio Martinez
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Clinical Trial

Comparison between percutaneous balloon valvuloplasty and open commissurotomy for mitral stenosis. A prospective and randomized study

Luiz F Cardoso et al. Cardiology. 2002.

Abstract

Eighty patients with tight and pliable mitral stenosis were randomized in a prospective trial comparing percutaneous balloon valvuloplasty and open commissurotomy. Mitral valve area increased significantly in both groups immediately after the procedures. However, a decrease in mitral valve area occurred in both groups at 6, 12 and 24 months during the follow-up. There was no death in either group. Two patients had significant mitral regurgitation after percutaneous balloon valvuloplasty. After 24 months, all patients in the commissurotomy group and 97.4% of the patients in the balloon valvuloplasty group were in New York Heart Association functional class I or II.

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