Transcatheter Mitral Valve Lithotripsy as a Pretreatment to Percutaneous Balloon Mitral Valvuloplasty for Heavily Calcified Rheumatic Mitral Stenosis

Circ Cardiovasc Interv. 2020 Jul;13(7):e009357. doi: 10.1161/CIRCINTERVENTIONS.120.009357. Epub 2020 Jul 17.

Authors

Alok Sharma^{1

2}, Rosemary Kelly^{1

2}, Mackenzie Mbai^{1

2}, Y Chandrashekhar^{1

2}, Stefan Bertog^{1

2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN (A.S., R.K., M.M., Y.C., S.B.).
² University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (A.S., R.K., M.M., Y.C., S.B.).
³ Cardio Vascular Center, Frankfurt, Germany (S.B.).

PMID: 32674681
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCINTERVENTIONS.120.009357

No abstract available

Keywords: balloon valvuloplasty; lithotripsy; mitral valve stenosis; rheumatic heart disease; transcatheter aortic valve replacement.

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Editorial
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MeSH terms

Aortic Valve Stenosis* / therapy
Bicuspid Aortic Valve Disease*
Constriction, Pathologic
Humans
Lithotripsy*
Mitral Valve / diagnostic imaging
Mitral Valve / surgery
Mitral Valve Stenosis* / diagnostic imaging
Mitral Valve Stenosis* / therapy
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