Popping-out of an inoue balloon catheter: a rare sign of a severe subvalvular mitral lesion.
Percutaneous transvenous mitral commissurotomy using the Inoue technique was performed in a patient with a severe subvalvular lesion. Although not entrapped or impeded by the subvalvular lesion, the distal balloon was levered upwards and the procedure ended up with the balloon catheter popping-out during the late phase of inflation.
Department of Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung Medical College, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China.
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Chern
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Hsieh
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Wu
D000328:Adult; D002404:Catheterization / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000295:instrumentation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008946:Mitral Valve Stenosis / Q000628:therapy*