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SUBMITTER: Sahoo D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6280727 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of cardiology cases 20160302 6
Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) and congenital heart disease (CHD) rarely co-exist in the same patient. However, such associations are not unknown in areas where RHD is endemic. We report a rare combination of severe rheumatic mitral stenosis, severe pulmonary artery hypertension (PAH), and an incidental clinically silent patent ductus arteriosus (PDA). The patient was initially subjected to a balloon mitral valvotomy to assess if the resultant fall in PA pressure would alter the flow dynamics of ...[more]