PEDIATRICS Vol. 13 No. 5 May 1954, pp. 454-461
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MITRAL COMMISSUROTOMY IN CHILDHOOD

PAUL R. LURIE M.D.1 and HARRIS B. SHUMACKER JR. M.D.2

1 The Department of Pediatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine, and the James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children, Indianapolis.
2 The Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, and the James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children, Indianapolis.

Three patients, age 1-2, 14 and 15 years, presented symptoms of mitral stenosis to a disabling degree and were surgically relieved with dramatic effectiveness. These cases are reported, including catheterization data in two of the cases. The similarity of a very few cases of rheumatic heart disease in childhood to adult patients with mitral stenosis is pointed out. The criteria for selection of adult patients for mitral commissurotomy are equally applicable to children.

Submitted on November 3, 1953