Failed percutaneous mitral commisurotomy due to congenital anomaly of inferior vena cava
Alam, S.T.; Ashraf, T.; Memon, A.
JPMA. Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association 63(1): 120-122
2013
ISSN/ISBN: 0030-9982 PMID: 23865148 Document Number: 668301
Since its inception in 1982, percutaneous transvenous mitral commissurotomy (PTMC) has gained increasingly wide use internationally in patients with Rheumatic Mitral stenosis. PTMC offers an alternative to surgery in patients who have pliable mitral valve.Very few reasons were reported to abort the procedure when patient lies on the table. This study presents two case reports in which congenital venous anomalies were one of the reasons to terminate the procedure.