Publications by authors named "Natalia Moura Machado"
JACC Case Rep
October 2024
Article Synopsis
- This paper discusses the increasing need for reintervention in patients with rheumatic heart disease due to longer life expectancy from corrective surgeries.
- It presents a specific case of a 54-year-old woman experiencing difficulties like shortness of breath and palpitations 26 years post-surgery for mitral stenosis.
- The case highlights a significant difference between the patient’s clinical symptoms and the severity indicated by echocardiographic assessments of her valvular disease.
