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Acute Mitral Valve Regurgitation Presenting With Right Upper Lobe Opacification

There is literature describing unilateral or focal pulmonary edema due to mitral regurgitation. The proposed mechanism is a regurgitant jet propelling blood towards the orifice of a particular pulmonary vein within the left atrium, which selectively pressurizes that vein. The increased hydrostatic p...

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Autores principales: Wallis, John, Shpigel, Daniel I, O'Donnell, Dane, Ponce, Meryl, Decaro, Mark J
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9564693/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36259023
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.29078