Mitral Stenosis surgical indications
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Factors favouring successful percutaneous mitral valvuloplasty
Mitral stenosis is amenable to percutaneous mitral valvuloplasty if the echocardiography demonstrates :
- Thickening confined to valve tips
- Good mobility of Anterior mitral valve leaflet
- Little chordal involvement
- not more than trivial mitral regurgitation
- no left atrial thrombus
- no commissural calcification.