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Heart Disease
Reports from University of North Carolina highlight recent research in heart disease
January 25th, 2008
According to recent research from the United States, "Libman-Sacks endocarditis is a well-described clinical entity in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus." "Transesophageal echocardiography is the definitive imaging modality used in assessing cardiac valvular involvement in this disease process. Herein we describe a young Hispanic woman with systemic lupus erythematosus and multiple tricuspid valvular vegetations who developed splenic and cerebral infarctions while on optimal anticoagulation therapy with warfarin in the setting of a newly diagnosed patent foramen ovale," wrote A.O. Zurick and colleagues, University of North Carolina. The...
Source: Medical Patent Business Week (2008-01-25)
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