Population
Autopsy cases of advanced rheumatic heart disease
Design
Other
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Should not inform living-patient management; hypothesis-generating for antemortem calcification assessment in rheumatic heart disease.
Gross calcification of the mitral apparatus is a common autopsy finding in advanced rheumatic heart disease and correlates with the severity of rheumatic changes.
Adriane Wynn (1953) studied this question.
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