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A 62 year-old female presented with a prolonged history of increasing exertional dyspnoea associated with lethargy. There was no history of rheumatic fever or infective endocarditis. She had previously been diagnosed with mitral regurgitation, which had been monitored with serial echocardiography for several years.
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Moorjani, N., Rana, B.S., Wells, F.C. (2018). Commissural Prolapse. In: Operative Mitral and Tricuspid Valve Surgery. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4204-1_10
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