Chronic rheumatic endocarditis an echocardiographic study

ABSTRACT

Our study in 131 patients showing sign of cardiac murmur investigated with echocardiography onowed that chronic rheumatic endocarditis [CRE] is more aggressive especially in males in our population involying multiple values at a relatively younger age. Our findings further showed this mural valve disease traditionally remains the commonest valve to be involved and absence of this should put serious doubts about the rheumatic a etiology. When involved alone, mural stenosis [MS] rather than [MR] mural regurgitation seems to be predominantly affecting the females, While MS occuring as part of multiple valvular pathology predominantly affects the male population