Includes bibliographical references and index.

History of mitral stenosis / Balram Bhargava, Neeraj Parakh -- Epidemiology and natural history / Anita Saxena -- Etiology / Anunay Gupta, Sandeep Singh -- Pathophysiology / Sudhir Arava, Kusuma Harisha, Ruma Ray -- Clinical features / Jagan Mohan Tharakan -- Complications of mitral stenosis / S. Nagendra Boopathy, Ambuj Roy -- Electrocardiogram, chest X-ray and ancillary investigations / Arun Sharma, Kanika Bhambri, Gurpreet Gulati, Neeraj Parakh -- Echocardiogram / Vivek Chaturvedi -- Cardiac catheterization / Raghgav Bansal, Ganesan Karthikeyan -- Assessment of severity and treatment strategy / Ravi S. Math -- Medical management / Rajnish Juneja, Neeraj Parakh -- Percutaneous trans-venous mitral commissurotomy : technique and hardware / Neeraj Parakh, Ravi S. Math -- Challenges in percutaneous transvenous mitral commissurotomy / Ravi S. Math, C.N. Manjunath -- Surgical treatment / S.K. Choudhary, Amol Bhoje -- Juvenile mitral stenosis / Arima Nigam, Ravi S. Math -- Pregnancy and mitral stenosis / Raghav Bansal, Preeti Yadav, S. Ramakrishnan -- Lutembacher syndrome / K.H. Srinivas, Anand Subramaniam -- Atrial fibrillation/other arrhythmias / Neeraj Parakh, Vivek Chaturvedi -- Congenital mitral stenosis / Danny Manglani, Saurabh Gupta -- Degenerative mitral stenosis / Neeraj Parakh -- Mitral bioprosthetic valve dysfunction / Neeraj Parakh -- Miscellaneous / Ravi S. Math, Vivek Chaturvedi.