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Sub-aortic obstruction of left ventricular outflow tract secondary to benfluorex-induced endocardial fibrosis

Patients exposed to benfluorex have an increased risk of restrictive organic valvular heart disease. Aortic and mitral regurgitations caused by fibrotic valve disease are the most common features observed in exposure to fenfluramine derivatives in general and benfluorex in particular. We report here...

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Autores principales: Szymanski, Catherine, Maréchaux, Sylvestre, Bruneval, Patrick, Andréjak, Michel, de Montpréville, Vincent Thomas, Belli, Emre, Tribouilloy, Christophe
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5497322/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28785710
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcha.2015.09.003