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[Mitral valve disorders and bile duct diseases]
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Post-mortem examinations reveal a high prevalence of gallstones (cholelithiasis) in patients with mitral valve defects, particularly in younger women. Nulliparous women showed a significantly higher rate of gallstones compared to those who had given birth.
Area of Science:
- Cardiology
- Gastroenterology
- Pathology
Abstract:
In a number of cases of post-mortem examinations of patients with mitral valve defects a morbidity rate of cholelithiasis of 41.3 per cent was found, above all by the larger morbidity rate in younger women. Up to the 50th year it was 37.1 per cent at an average death age of 40.7 years. Is was conspicuous that more women who had not been delivered suffered from cholelithiasis than those ones who had been delivered (68.9 per cent of the nulliparae). Before the 50th year 55.6 per cent of the women who had not been delivered suffered from such a disease at an average death age of 39.3 years. Probably in these women the heart disease was so severe that there did not develop a gravidity.