Abstract

ECENT ADVANCES in clinical physiology, surgery, and pathology have made the recognition and management of rheumatic valvular disease an exact exercise in applied pathophysiology. This review is focused on what we regard as the basic principle of that exercise: That the functional anatomy of each rheumatic valvular lesion finds direct expression in both the natural history of that lesion and the clinical signs in each affected patient.

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