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Published on: November 18, 2018
Quadrivalvular heart disease: transition from congenital pulmonary stenosis to rheumatic disease
Michael G Katz1, Arie Schachner, David Harpaz
1The Sami and Angela Shamoon Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, The E. Wolfson Medical Center, Holon, Israel.
Abstract:
The case is reported of a 36-year-old male patient suffering from congenital pulmonary stenosis who previously had undergone pulmonary balloon valvuloplasty. During the past nine years, he had experienced recurrent attacks of rheumatic fever that gradually damaged all four heart valves. The patient underwent aortic, mitral and pulmonary valve replacement with tricuspid valve annuloplasty and pulmonary artery reconstruction. Histologically, all heart valves--including the pulmonary--had similar changes that corresponded to chronic rheumatic disease.
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