Salman Munir, Masood Ali Akbar, Asad Alamgir, Syed Asif Ali, Madiha Iqbal.
Immediate Results of Percutaneous transmitral commissurotomy (PTMC) in a tertiary care hospital, Punjab Institute of Cardiology, Lahore.
J Cardiovascular Dis Jan ;14(1):22-5.

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the immediate results of percutaneous transmitral commissurotomy (PTMC) in a tertiary care hospital Punjab Institute of Cardiology, Lahore, Pakistan. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This observational study included 108 consecutive patients of rheumatic mitral stenosis who underwent PTMC, at Punjab Institute of Cardiology, Lahore Pakistan. Both males and females age 16-46 were included and data was analyzed using SPSS 20. P-value ? 0.05 was taken as significant. RESULTS: Out of 108 patients, 26(24.1%) were males and 82(75.9%) were females. Mean age was 29.85±7.23 (range: 16-46) years. Patients had higher sinus rhythm (90.74%) while atrial fibrillation and history of CVA were less frequent in patients as 9.25% and 1.85% respectively. Post-PTMC echo findings improved significantly as p-value < 0.001. CONCLUSION: PTMC is safe and effecive method for patients with severe symptomatic mitral stenosis .PTMC significantly improves mitral valve area, TVPG, MVPG, MVMPG and mean LA pressure.

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