Population
2 patients with pernicious anemia presenting with classical physical signs of chronic valvular heart disease
Design
Case_series
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Severe anemia may mimic valvular disease on exam; case reports leave open the prevalence of functional murmurs in pernicious anemia.
Severe anemia can produce functional diastolic murmurs and cardiac enlargement mimicking chronic valvular heart disease despite structurally normal valves.
BERTRAM GOLDSTEIN (1927) studied this question.
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