Mitral-Valve Disease

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WITH the advent of commissurotomy and valvuloplasty for the surgical correction of mitral stenosis, it became of more than academic interest to differentiate the two components of combined mitral-valve disease. Early attempts to do this were frustrated by the paucity of data against which the accuracy of radiologic impressions could be checked, especially in patients who defied classification by any technic as having stenosis or insufficiency as their incapacitating lesion.Many patients, subsequently shown to have widely different valve sizes, presented confusing and overlapping x-ray changes (Fig. 1.). As a result, the validity of x-ray opinion was limited largely to . . .

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