Percutaneous mitral commissurotomy in rheumatic mitral stenosis associated with cor triatriatum

Cardiovascular Intervention and Therapeutics - Tập 30 - Trang 185-187 - 2014
Soumen Devidutta1, Rajiv Narang1, Anita Saxena1, Ganesan Karthikeyan1
1Department of Cardiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

Tóm tắt

Cor triatriatum is an uncommon congenital anomaly and its coexistence with rheumatic mitral stenosis is rare. We report two patients with rheumatic mitral stenosis with associated cor triatriatum. Percutaneous mitral valvuloplasty was successfully performed in both cases. We describe the clinical presentation and discuss the technical issues related to balloon mitral valvotomy in these cases.

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