Actualities regarding the degenerative valvular heart
Ionescu, S.D.; Sandru, V.; Burdujan, A.
Revista Medico-Chirurgicala a Societatii de Medici Si Naturalisti Din Iasi 106(4): 696-701
2002
ISSN/ISBN: 0048-7848 PMID: 14974213 Document Number: 550015
The degenerative valvular heart disease became prioritary from the epidemiological point of view by contrast with the rheumatismal one, as a consequence of the increase of the economic standard and of average life expectancy. The calcific aortic stenosis is the most frequently encountered among the valvular heart lesions. Since the history of this disease is not well known, many efforts have been made in order to research all its aspects from the etiology to therapeutical and prophylactic methods.