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Mitral valve surgery for mitral regurgitation caused by Libman-Sacks endocarditis: a report of four cases and a systematic review of the literature

Libman-Sacks endocarditis of the mitral valve was first described by Libman and Sacks in 1924. Currently, the sterile verrucous vegetative lesions seen in Libman-Sacks endocarditis are regarded as a cardiac manifestation of both systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and the antiphospholipid syndrome (A...

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Autores principales: Bouma, Wobbe, Klinkenberg, Theo J, van der Horst, Iwan CC, Wijdh-den Hamer, Inez J, Erasmus, Michiel E, Bijl, Marc, Suurmeijer, Albert JH, Zijlstra, Felix, Mariani, Massimo A
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2859362/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20331896
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-5-13