Does assessment of mitral valve commissural morphology by transoesophageal echocardiography predict outcome after balloon mitral valvotomy?
A higher commissural score predicts a good outcome after BMV hence it can be concluded that along with Wilkins score, commissural morphology and score should be assessed with TOE in patients undergoing BMV.
In addition to the known enhancement of HIV-1 acquisition resulting from the MRKAd5 HIV-1 vaccine, these findings in a nonrandomized subset of enrollees show an HLA-specific vaccine effect on the time to CD4(+) T-cell count decline and viremia level after infection and the potential for vaccines to differentially alter disease outcome according to population HLA composition.