title: [Percutaneous transvenous balloon dilatation of mitral valve stenosis].
abstract: In this study, 42 consecutive symptomatic patients (median age 60 (30-78) years, 86% females) with mitral valve stenosis (57% had severely deformed and/or calcified mitral valves) were treated with (Inoue) balloon dilatation during the period August 1989-June 1994. Mitral valve area and cardiac output increased by 67 and 25%, whereas the transmital gradient as well as pulmonary artery pressure fell by 45% and 21%, respectively, after the dilatation. Follow-up at a mean of 16 (1-46) months revealed a total mortality of 12% (cardiac mortality of 7%). Five patients developed significant' mitral regurgitation after the treatment and four of these had subacute mitral valve replacement. A further four patients received an artificial valve during the follow-up period. During the follow-up period the increase in valve area remained unchanged, and accordingly 97% of the patients were in New York Heart Association functional class I-II. Balloon dilatation was an acceptable treatment in the described elderly population with significant mitral stenosis and deformed valves.
authors.affiliation: Aarhus Universitetshospital, Skejby Sygehus, kardiologisk afdeling.
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Bagger
authors.forename: T T
authors.initials: TT
authors.lastname: Nielsen
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002404:Catheterization; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008946:Mitral Valve Stenosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D012189:Retrospective Studies
vernacular_title: Perkutan transvenøs ballondilatation af mitralklapstenose.