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Mitral Stenosis: Collected Reprints (1970-2019)

Mitral Stenosis: Collected Reprints (1970-2019)

Hardcover

Medical Reference

ISBN13: 9798888621509
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Feb 27 2023
Pages: 88
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.25 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English

This volume collects 16 articles on mitral stenosis written by Dr. William C. Roberts and colleagues between 1970 and 2019. It is part of a series of collected reprints published in 2023 gathering publications from Dr. Roberts' long career.


Preface

In the early parts of the 20th century, rheumatic mitral stenosis was a common and devastating condition. Elliott Cutler at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston attempted in several patients mitral commissurotomy without success. It was not until 25 years later in Philadelphia that the procedure was carried out successfully. Thus, mitral commissurotomy became the first successful cardiac operation (patent ductus arteriosus and aortic isthmus coarctation are not part of the heart). Today, in the Western world, rheumatic mitral stenosis is relatively infrequent. Detailed morphologic study of the rheumatic mitral stenotic valve has disclosed that the thickening of the leaflets and chordae tendineae is due to superimposed fibrous tissue, not to intrinsic damage to the leaflets and chordae themselves. Occasionally, fibrin deposits are seen suggesting that the superimposed fibrous tissue is the result of organization of fibrin thrombi. Today in the Western world mitral stenosis is likely more commonly the result of massive mitral annular calcific deposits rather than the rheumatic process.

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