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Percutaneous transvenous mitral commissurotomy in juvenile mitral stenosis.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  12918798     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
OBJECTIVE: To determine the efficacy and safety of percutaneous transvenous mitral commissurotomy (PTMC), using multi-track double balloon technique in juvenile mitral stenosis. DESIGN: Open non-randomised intervention. SETTING: Cardiac catheterisation laboratories of The Mater Hospital, The Nairobi Hospital and Kenyatta National Hospital from 1996 to 2001. PATIENTS: Forty five consecutive patients aged less than 21 years with severe pure mitral stenosis and suitable mitral valve apparatus (leaflets, chordae and papillary muscles) for successful commissurotomy. INTERVENTION: Percutaneous transvenous mitral commissurotomy under local anaesthesia. Standard left and right heart catheterisation for mitral valve disease. Trans-septal left atrial entry using standard septal puncture technique and left ventricular position secured by super-stiff guide-wire. Double-balloon mitral valvotomy on single guide-wire using multi-track balloon catheters. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Mitral valve area, left atrial pressures, mitral regurgitation grade, NYHA functional class. RESULTS: Mitral valve area increased from 0.6 +/- 0.19 cm2 to 1.9 +/- 0.19 cm2 (p<0.001), left atrial pressures from 30.5 +/- 3.9 mmHg to 11.5 +/- 3.8 mmHg (p<0.001). Most patients NYHA functional class immediately improved from class III-IV to class I-II. There was no significant changes in grades of mitral regurgitation or significant complications related to the procedure. CONCLUSIONS: PTMC in juvenile mitral stenosis using the multi-track technique is safe and effective yielding satisfactory immediate results.
Authors:
G O Yonga; P Bonhoeffer
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Clinical Trial; Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't    
Journal Detail:
Title:  East African medical journal     Volume:  80     ISSN:  0012-835X     ISO Abbreviation:  East Afr Med J     Publication Date:  2003 Apr 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2003-08-15     Completed Date:  2003-09-12     Revised Date:  2006-11-15    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  0372766     Medline TA:  East Afr Med J     Country:  Kenya    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  172-4     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
Hurlingham Heart Clinic, PO Box 76555, Nairobi, Kenya.
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Adolescent
Adult
Age Factors
Balloon Dilatation*
Child
Female
Femoral Vein / physiopathology,  radiography,  surgery*
Humans
Male
Mitral Valve Stenosis / physiopathology,  radiography,  surgery*
Outcome Assessment (Health Care)
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East Afr Med J. 2003 Apr;80(4):169-71   [PMID:  12918797 ]

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