Word: mitral
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...naval doctor conducted the physical, he saw that the hands of the man on the table shook noticeably, though he was only 62. His circulation was slow, his blood pressure was about 25 points high (186 over 108), and there was a pronounced murmur in his heart as the mitral valve failed to close properly. He showed signs of an advanced case of hardening of the arteries. Listening with a stethoscope to the labored breathing, the doctor decided that the man had fluid in his lungs. The doctor's conclusion...
These conclusions are supported by the British Medical Journal, in which surgeons describe four auto-accident cases seen at Harefield Hospital in Middlesex. In two of them the aorta was ruptured; in one, the injury was to the mitral valve, and in one the septum (wall) between two of the heart's chambers was torn. Only a decade ago, there would have been little hope for the victims, but that is no longer true. In all four cases surgery was successful-including two instances in which the aorta was patched with a Dacron graft...