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 ...

Contemporary management of coronary artery disease relies increasingly on percutaneous techniques ... distal protection balloons or filters, thrombectomy catheters, rotational atherectomy, and ...

The rapid increase in the number of percutaneous coronary interventions ... such as the intra-aortic balloon pump. Now some 40 years since its first-in-man description, the situations and ...

The presence of a thrombus has been recognized as a strong predictor of significant risk for complications and poor outcome in percutaneous ... or a small balloon, is advanced across the ...