Acute pericarditis as a complication of percutaneous mitral balloon valvulotomy.
During the past two decades, percutaneous mitral balloon valvulotomy (PMBV) has been frequently used, with high success and low complication rates, in the treatment of patients with moderate to severe rheumatic mitral stenosis. The case is reported of a patient with severe rheumatic mitral stenosis who developed acute pericarditis two days after successful PMBV. To the best of the authors' knowledge, this is the first such case to be reported.
Inonu University Medical Faculty, Department of Cardiology, Malatya, Turkey. drhturhan@yahoo.com
Hasan
H
Turhan
Nurcan
N
Basar
Ayse Saatci
AS
Yasar
Ali Riza
AR
Erbay
Ramazan
R
Atak
D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D002404:Catheterization / Q000009:adverse effects*; D004452:Echocardiography; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008944:Mitral Valve Insufficiency / Q000628:therapy; D008946:Mitral Valve Stenosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D010493:Pericarditis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D012214:Rheumatic Heart Disease / Q000150:complications; D014262:Tricuspid Valve Insufficiency / Q000628:therapy