A COMPARISON OF MEDICAL AND SURGICAL TREATMENT OF MITRAL STENOSIS
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- 1 July 1961
- Vol. 23 (4) , 377-382
- https://doi.org/10.1136/hrt.23.4.377
Abstract
The results of mitral valvotomy in a series of 598 patients have been compared with the reported follow-up states of patients with mitral stenosis treated by medical measures. The difficulties of such a comparison are noted. The comparison does, however, indicate that patients submitted to surgery have a much better outlook regarding both survival and restoration to reasonably normal health.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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