How to assess mitral stenosis by echo - A step-by-step approach
Rheumatic mitral stenosis is the commonest valvular heart disease in developing countries. Other causes include congenital abnormalities and degenerative mitral valve disease. Mitral stenosis when it is due to rheumatic process, can be managed by percutaneous transvenous mitral commissurotomy. Echoc...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
2017-01-01
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Series: | Journal of the Indian Academy of Echocardiography & Cardiovascular Imaging |
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Online Access: | http://www.jiaecho.org/article.asp?issn=2543-1463;year=2017;volume=1;issue=3;spage=197;epage=205;aulast=Ganesan |