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In this chapter, the issues will be simplified artificially, considering each lesion in isolation and pretending that no other valve lesions are present. In addition, the mechanistic and etiologic factors will be presented as though perfectly clear and isolated, which in many real patients is often not true. Sometimes a patient has valvular disease from two sources, for example, myxomatous mitral valve disease with superimposed ischemic heart disease. In many circumstances, such a separation is artifi cial. In addition, these discussions will purposefully neglect the settings of acute valvular dysfunction, management of which is different than in chronic valvular lesions, the subject of this chapter.
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Stewart, W.J. (2009). Criteria for Operative Intervention in Valvular Heart Disease Based on Echocardiography. In: Nihoyannopoulos, P., Kisslo, J. (eds) Echocardiography. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-293-1_11
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