Adults with aortic valve disorder do not experience reduction in survival rate
Tuesday, September 16, 2008 - 16:28
in Health & Medicine
Young adults with a bicuspid aortic valve, a congenital heart abnormality, experience subsequent cardiac events but do not appear to have lower survival rates compared to the general population, according to a study in the September 17 issue of JAMA.
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