Inheritance Impacts Mitral Valve Insufficiency
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Mitral Valve Insufficiency
The causes of mitral valve insufficiency may largely be divided into two categories: organic or primary and functional or secondary. In the first case, the cause of insufficiency is due to a morphological change of the valve. Numerous diseases may damage the valve. Of the degenerative disease we may list myxomatous degeneration, fibroelastic deficiency or annular calcifications. Of the phlogist...
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عنوان ژورنال: Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1942-325X,1942-3268
DOI: 10.1161/circgenetics.117.001920