"valvulotomy" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2008, Jeffrey A. Norton et al., Surgery: Basic Science and Clinical Evidence, page 1472",
          "text": "A few days after Bailey's success, on June 16, in Boston, Dr. Dwight Harken successfully performed his first valvulotomy for mitral stenosis.",
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        "A valvotomy: an incision to relieve stenosis of a valve, especially in the heart"
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