Population
Children with mitral regurgitation, particularly older children without a history of rheumatic fever.
Design
Review
Authors
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Consider myxomatous mitral transformation in non-rheumatic pediatric insufficiency; leaves open prospective studies to quantify Marfan prevalence.
Highlights myxomatous transformation as an important differential diagnosis for acquired mitral insufficiency in children without a history of rheumatic fever.
Eloise B. Sherman (1970) studied this question.
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