FACTORS INFLUENCING THE LATE RESULTS OF MITRAL VALVULOPLASTY FOR MITRAL STENOSIS
Authors: L B ELLIS, D E HARKEN
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1955)

Article1 July 1955FACTORS INFLUENCING THE LATE RESULTS OF MITRAL VALVULOPLASTY FOR MITRAL STENOSISLAURENCE B. ELLIS, M.D., F.A.C.P., DWIGHT E. HARKEN, M.D., F.A.C.S.LAURENCE B. ELLIS, M.D., F.A.C.P., DWIGHT E. HARKEN, M.D., F.A.C.S.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-43-1-133 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptThe successful surgical correction of mitral stenosis has been a dramatic therapeutic milestone. Sufficient time has now elapsed to prove that surgical intervention may be life-saving. One might even assume, from some of the papers presented and published, that the problem of mitral stenosis has been entirely solved. This, of course, is not so. Stenosis of the mitral valve is but one factor, albeit frequently the dominant one, involved in chronic rheumatic heart disease. The successful surgical attack on this valve does not directly correct many of the other factors. The valve is never returned to the normal anatomic state,...Bibliography1. HarkenEllisDexterFarrandDickson DELBLREJF: The responsibility of the physician in the selection of patients with mitral stenosis for surgical treatment, Circulation 5: 349, 1952. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar2. EllisHarken LBDE: The clinical results in the first five hundred patients with mitral stenosis undergoing valvuloplasty, Circulation 11: 637 (April) 1955. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar3. AbelmannEllisHarken WHLBDE: The diagnosis of mitral regurgitation, Am. J. Med. 15: 5, 1953. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar4. GloverO'NeillJantonIaia RPTJOHB: An analysis of thromboembolic data in 500 cases of mitral stenosis, Abstract in program of Second World Congress of Cardiology, Washington, D. C., 208, Sept. 12-17, 1954. Google Scholar5. GloverDavilaO'NeillJanton RPJCTJOH: Does mitral stenosis recur after commissurotomy? Circulation 11: 14 (Jan.) 1955. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Boston, Massachusetts*Presented at the Thirty-sixth Annual Session of the American College of Physicians, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 26, 1955.From the Thorndike Memorial Laboratory, The Second and Fourth Medical Services (Harvard), Boston City Hospital, the Surgical Service of The Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and the Departments of Medicine and Surgery, Harvard Medical School.This study was supported by Grant No. 442 from the National Heart Institute. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited ByMèthodische Fortschritte und neue Ergebnisse indirekter photometrischer Untersuchungen bei Herz- und KreislaufkrankenTRANSVENTRICULAR MITRAL VALVOTOMY REPORT OF 50 CONSECUTIVE CASESA Clinical Study of 1,000 Consecutive Cases of Mitral Stenosis Two to Nine Years after Mitral ValvuloplastyErfahrungen zur prae- und postoperativen Beurteilung der MitralstenoseCurrent indications for the surgical correction of mitral stenosisSome Surgical Aspects of Mitral StenosisClinical Observations before and after Mitral Valvuloplasty 1 July 1955Volume 43, Issue 1Page: 133-142KeywordsAtrial fibrillationCardiovascular therapyHeartHospital medicineLongitudinal studiesMedical servicesMitral stenosisResearch laboratoriesStenosisSurgery Issue Published: 1 July 1955 PDF DownloadLoading ...