The epidemiology of valvular heart diseases: the problem is growing.

Adv Cardiol

Division of Cardiovascular Pathophysiology and The Howard Gilman Institute for Valvular Heart Diseases, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY 10021, USA.

Published: September 2004

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