A differentiated morphological parameter-coding system to describe the suitability of mitral valve stenoses intended for percutaneous valvotomy

• Published in: Heart and vessels Vol. 30; no. 5; pp. 632 - 641
• Main Authors: Bogunovic, Nikola, Horstkotte, Dieter, Scholtz, Werner, Faber, Lothar, Bogunovic, Lukas, van Buuren, Frank
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo Springer Japan 01.09.2015; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering; Cardiac Catheterization - methods; Cardiac Surgery; Cardiac Surgical Procedures - methods; Cardiology; Cardiovascular disease; Clinical outcomes; Echocardiography, Doppler - methods; Female; Humans; Male; Medical procedures; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Middle Aged; Mitral Valve - diagnostic imaging; Mitral Valve - surgery; Mitral Valve Stenosis - diagnostic imaging; Mitral Valve Stenosis - surgery; Morphology; Original Article; Predictive Value of Tests; Reproducibility of Results; Retrospective Studies; ROC Curve; Severity of Illness Index; Ultrasonic imaging; Vascular Surgery; Young Adult; Valvular heart disease; Score; Echocardiography; Catheter-based valvular interventions

Percutaneous balloon-mitral-valvotomy (PBMV) is an alternative to surgery in selected patients with mitral valve (MV) stenosis (MS). Applying echocardiography, suitability for PBMV is assessed by detailed morphological description. Echo-scores alone are suboptimal to describe MV morphology, because...