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Successful balloon valvuloplasty of rheumatic mitral valve stenosis in a pregnant patient without fluoroscopy: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Rheumatic mitral stenosis (MS) is the most common rheumatic heart disease that complicates pregnancy. Percutaneous transvenous mitral commissurotomy (PTMC) has become the first-choice treatment, but is routinely performed with fluoroscopic guidance, which bears risks from ionizing radi...

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Autores principales: Ubben, Timm, Frerker, Christian, Kuck, Karl-Heinz, Schmidt, Tobias
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6177101/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31020137
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ehjcr/yty058