Percutaneous balloon mitral valvuloplasty is a procedure used to dilate the mitral valve in the setting of rheumatic mitral valve stenosis. A catheter is inserted into the femoral vein ...

Our catheterization lab played a vital role in the development of coronary angioplasty, balloon valvuloplasty and understanding invasive hemodynamic assessment of the cardiac patient. During the 1980s ...

It is used to determine the suitability of the mitral valve structure for percutaneous mitral balloon valvuloplasty, a minimally invasive procedure using a balloon to open the stenotic mitral valve.

The patient is anticoagulated using heparin and the physician threads a catheter across the aortic valve and performs balloon aortic valvuloplasty. The physician then positions the prosthetic ...