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Congenital Mitral Stenosis by Multimodality Cardiac Imaging
Author(s) -
HamiltonCraig Christian,
Anscombe Russell,
Platts David,
Burstow Darryl,
Slaughter Richard
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
echocardiography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.404
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1540-8175
pISSN - 0742-2822
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2008.00779.x
Subject(s) - medicine , multimodality , cardiac imaging , stenosis , cardiology , radiology , philosophy , linguistics
This vignette illustrates a classic case of congenital mitral stenosis (Ruckman‐VanPraagh type 1) presenting in adulthood and demonstrates the benefits of multimodality cardiac imaging prior to successful surgical intervention.