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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Main Author: Gnanavelu Ganesan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2017-01-01
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