Mitral Stenosis

Foreword

Preface

Glossary

Contributors

PART 1. PATHOPHYSIOLOGY AND CLINICAL FEATURES

1. The history of mitral stenosis

Balram Bhargava and Neeraj Parakh

2. Epidemiology and the natural history of mitral stenosis

Anita Saxena

3. The etiology of mitral stenosis

Anunay Gupta and Sandeep Singh

4. The pathophysiology of mitral stenosis

Sudheer Arava, Kusuma Harisha, and Ruma Ray

5. Clinical features of mitral stenosis

Jaganmohan A. Tharakan

6. Complications of mitral stenosis

Senguttuvan Nagendra Boopathy and Ambuj Roy

PART 2. INVESTIGATIONS

7. Electrocardiogram, chest radiograph, and ancillary investigations

Arun Sharma, Kanika Bhambri, Gurpreet S. Gulati, and Neeraj Parakh

8. Echocardiogram

Vivek Chaturvedi

9. Cardiac catheterization

Raghgav Bansal and Ganesan Karthikeyan

PART 3. MANAGEMENT

10. Assessment of severity and treatment strategy

Ravi S. Math

11. Medical management

Rajnish Juneja and Neeraj Parakh

12. Percutaneous transvenous mitral commissurotomy: Techniques and hardware

Neeraj Parakh and Ravi S. Math

13. Challenges in percutaneous transvenous mitral commissurotomy

Ravi S. Math and Cholenahally Nanjappa Manjunath

14. Surgical treatment

Shiv Kumar Choudhary and Amol Bhoje

PART 4. SPECIAL SITUATIONS

15. Juvenile mitral stenosis

Arima Nigam and Ravi S. Math

16. Pregnancy and mitral stenosis

Raghav Bansal, Preeti Yadav, and Sivasubramanian Ramakrishnan

17. Lutembacher syndrome

Kikkeri Hemannasetty Srinivas and Anand Subramaniam

18. Atrial fibrillation and other arrhythmias

Neeraj Parakh and Vivek Chaturvedi

19. Congenital mitral stenosis

Danny Manglani and Saurabh Kumar Gupta

20. Degenerative mitral stenosis

Neeraj Parakh

21. Mitral bioprosthetic valve dysfunction

Neeraj Parakh

PART 5. MISCELLANEOUS

22. Pulmonary hypertension in mitral stenosis

Ravi S. Math

23. Left-ventricular dysfunction in mitral stenosis

Ravi S. Math

24. Subvalvular deformity in mitral stenosis

Vivek Chaturvedi

Index