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224 patients aged 20 years and less with an echocardiographic diagnosis of rheumatic heart disease at…
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Supports focused screening for combined regurgitant lesions in endemic youth; leaves open prognostic value pending longitudinal cohorts.
Juvenile rheumatic heart disease predominantly presents as combined mitral and aortic regurgitation or isolated mitral regurgitation, with pulmonary hypertension as a common complication and rare valvular calcification.
Yuko-Jowi et al. (2006) studied this question.
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