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Closed valvuloplasty for mitral stenosis

A twelve-year follow-up study of 1571 patients

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Since our first report of successful surgery for mitral stenosis in 1948 [1] operations for the correction of this lesion have been carried out in sufficiently large numbers and long enough for valid statistical deductions. The benefits conferred by surgery, and factors influencing both improvement and deterioration after initial improvement, can be assessed. We have previously made progress reports on the late results of our initial consecutive series of patients [2,3], The current report extends this series by an additional 571 patients operated on up to November 1, 1961, and an additional three years of follow-up study.

From the Thorndike Memorial Laboratory, Second and Fourth (Harvard) Medical Services, Boston City Hospital, the Surgical Service, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, and the departments of Medicine and Surgery, Harvard Medical School (requests for reprints should be addressed to Dr. Ellis, Heart Station, Boston City Hospital, Harrison Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts).

Presented in part at the Fourth World Congress of Cardiology, Mexico City, October, 1962.

Supported by a grant (442) from the National Heart Institute, National Institutes of Health, United States Public Health Service. (Physical facilities were generously provided by the Boston Mutual Life Insurance Company.)

Published in N. E. Journal of Medicine 270, 643-650 (1964).

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  1. Harvard Medical School, USA

    Laurence B. Ellis M.D. (Clinical professor of medicine, chief of Cardiac Clinic, director of Electrocardiograph Laboratory, visiting physician) & Dwight E. Harken M.D. (Clinical professor of surgery, surgeon, surgeon-in-chief for thoracic surgery)

  2. Boston City Hospital, USA

    Laurence B. Ellis M.D. (Clinical professor of medicine, chief of Cardiac Clinic, director of Electrocardiograph Laboratory, visiting physician)

  3. Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, USA

    Dwight E. Harken M.D. (Clinical professor of surgery, surgeon, surgeon-in-chief for thoracic surgery)

  4. Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, USA

    Dwight E. Harken M.D. (Clinical professor of surgery, surgeon, surgeon-in-chief for thoracic surgery)

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Ellis, L.B., Harken, D.E. (1967). Closed valvuloplasty for mitral stenosis. In: Annals of Life Insurance Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-85617-4_9

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