[Echocardiographic evaluation of the results of mitral commissurotomy].
The AA. relate the results of an echocardiographic study carried out on some patients with mitral stenosis associated or not with mitral regurgitation or with other valvular disease. Ten patients who had to undergo to surgical commissurotomy, were studied before and in the early post-operative period. The M-mode echocardiography appeared to be always available to diagnose the mitral stenosis, but not to quantify it. On the other side the two dimensional echocardiography is proven to be a useful method in the quantitative study of the mitral area and particularly when it is applied in the evaluation of the surgical results of comparing the pre and post-operative examinations. The data obtained were analysed with statistical method.
D000328:Adult; D004452:Echocardiography; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D008946:Mitral Valve Stenosis / Q000601:surgery*
Valutazione ecocardiografica dei risultati della commissurotomia mitralica.