Chronic valvular heart disease is present in a significant proportion (8.3%) of older patients at autopsy, highlighting the importance of antemortem recognition.
Autopsy prevalence raises possibility of underdiagnosis in older adults; leaves open whether targeted screening improves outcomes.
Chronic valvular heart disease was found in 8.3 per cent of patients 50 years of age or older who were necropsied at the Mayo Clinic in 1950 and 1951. Although many lived to old age the valvular deformities presented hazards which indicate that ante- mortem recognition is of importance.
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Milton W. Anderson (1953) studied this question.
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