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Sex-dependent aortic valve pathology in patients with rheumatic heart disease

BACKGROUND: Rheumatic heart disease is an autoimmune disease caused by group A streptococci infection and frequently affects the aortic valve. Sex differences are common in the disease progression, treatment, and outcome. However, little is known about the sex differences in the pathology of aortic...

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Autores principales: Xiao, Feng, Zheng, Rui, Yang, Di, Cao, Kejiang, Zhang, Shijiang, Wu, Bingruo, Shao, Yongfeng, Zhou, Bin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5491156/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28662157
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0180230