Population
63 patients who died from tuberculosis
Design
Case_series
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Should not change TB or rheumatic heart disease management; leaves open possible shared myocardial pathology requiring confirmation.
Pathological examination of hearts from patients who died of tuberculosis revealed myocardial infiltrations indistinguishable from rheumatic Aschoff bodies.
A. Valdés-Dapena (1951) studied this question.
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