A patient with mitral valve stenosis is admitted to your unit. She is scheduled for surgery to repair her valve. What procedure is usually performed to open the mitral valve?
A) A valve replacement
B) A chordoplasty
C) Balloon valvuloplasty
D) A commissurotomy
Ans: D
Feedback: Surgical intervention consists of valvuloplasty, usually a commissurotomy to open or rupture the fused commissures of the mitral valve. The other procedures are not commonly used for mitral valve stenosis.
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