Severe Aortic Regurgitation in Young People

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THE purpose of this report is twofold. It concerns first the characteristic and in some respects unique features of a small but special group of young patients with rheumatic heart disease whose principal lesion is aortic regurgitation of an extreme degree, and second our personal experience with the plastic valve of Hufnagel as a palliative maneuver in these patients when medical measures fail.It has long been recognized that aortic regurgitation of high degree is as a rule badly borne, that even in childhood it may be accompanied by angina pectoris, and that sudden death is a common consequence. It . . .

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