Heart Disease

Reports Summarize Heart Disease Research from M.C.G. Rubin and Co-Authors

Published in Heart Disease Weekly, July 31st, 2011

2011 JUL 31 -- "We report a 20 year old patient with repaired Tetralogy of Fallot who presented with acute right side heart failure. The echocardiogram showed severe mitral regurgitation which was not present one year before," scientists in Madrid, Spain report.

"Because of mitral insufficiency, pulmonary pressure increased and it was nearby 70% systemic pressure. Pulmonary regurgitation got worse, and the patient came to the hospital in a state of anasarca," wrote M.C.G. Rubin and colleagues.

The researchers concluded: "After valve replacement, histopathological study of the mitral valve and the aortic valve revealed Aschoff nodules and...

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Source: Heart Disease Weekly (2011-07-31)

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