Medically reviewed by Rafle Fernandez, MD Valvular heart disease, sometimes called heart valve disease, is when one or more ...

Methods We retrospectively reviewed 1226 consecutive patients with AF (54.5±11.6 years; 68.2% females) who underwent rheumatic mitral valve (MV) surgery from 1997 to 2016. The left atrial appendage ...

Raipur: The cardio surgery department of state-run Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar Memorial Hospital successfully performed a challenging open heart surgery on a .

The prevalence and impact of right ventricular dysfunction (RVD) in degenerative mitral regurgitation (DMR) is unknown. We aimed to determine whether RVD assessed by echocardiography in routine ...

Degenerative mitral valve disease is common. Up to a quarter of patients with degenerative mitral valve disease may be asymptomatic despite having severe valve regurgitation. Current guideline ...

1 We report a case of a pregnant woman with GD who presented thyrotoxicosis and HF with severe mitral ... high fever. She was admitted to the maternity section at the hospital for investigation, where ...

If you grew up in the United States after the middle of the past century, you've probably never thought much about rheumatic fever. And for good reason. In that era, the disease seemed to become a ...

AIMS To describe the clinical features of rheumatic fever and to assess the Jones criteria in a population and setting similar to that in many developing countries. METHODS The charts of 555 cases of ...

The first patient to undergo a mitral valve replacement in August 1960 was a 40-year-old woman with end-stage rheumatic heart disease, died within a day of a valve replacement. The second patient ...

79.5 +/- 63.4 g of methylprednisolone or its equivalent; P less than 0.05). During the five-year follow-up, one patient in group 1 and five in group 2 required valve surgery, no patient in group 3 had ...