Controversial aspects of rheumatic heart disease.
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Surgical Aspects of Rheumatic Heart Disease
In the treatment of acquired heart disease there has always been conflict between the anatomical or mechanical damage to the valves and the more functional element of the disease of the heart muscle itself. In the present age it is difficult to realize how the actual mechanical factor was ignored for so long, and indeed in my young days we were taught that the dominant factor was the rheumatic ...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1968
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.2.5602.383