Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Chandra Rath, Pratap
• Prasad Tripathy, Mahendra
• Kumar Das, Nagendra
• Seshagiri Rao, P.
• Deb, Tripti
• Sarat Chandra, K.
• Agarwal, Sanjay
• Dikshit, Vijay
• Sitaram Reddy, B.

Titel

Balloon mitral valvuloplasty with bifoil catheter: Immediate and long-term follow-up results

Ist Teil von

• Catheterization and cardiovascular diagnosis, 1998-01, Vol.43 (1), p.43-47

Ort / Verlag

New York: Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company

Erscheinungsjahr

1998

Quelle

Wiley-Blackwell Journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This report documents clinical and hemodynamic benefits of balloon mitral valvuloplasty (BMV) using a bifoil balloon catheter from a single center in 415 consecutive cases of rheumatic mitral stenosis (MS). The procedure was successful in 396 (95.2%) patients, with an increase in mitral valve area (MVA) from 0.82 ± 0.35 cm2 to 2.21 ± 0.24 cm2 (P < 0.001). There were 2 (0.48%) in‐hospital deaths, and 6 (1.44%) patients developed acute mitral regurgitation. The procedural and fluroscopy time was reduced significantly from 52 ± 11 and 38 ± 6 min to 33 ± 7 and 19 ± 5 min, respectively, after modifications of technique in our last 326 cases. The bifoil balloon catheter technique is safe and effective, and provides excellent hemodynamic benefits which are sustained at long‐term follow‐up. This technique should be considered as an addition to the existing armamentarium of interventional cardiologists performing mitral balloon valvuloplasty. Cathet. Cardiovasc. Diagn. 43:43–47, 1998. © 1998 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.