Word: mitral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...patients, Dr. Smithy warned, could benefit from the new operation. The only good candidates are those who are young, suffering from stenosis (narrowing) of the mitral or aortic valves, with no active rheumatic involvement of the heart, and whose general health is good enough to make them reasonable operative risks...