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Rheumatic heart disease (2)

This image of a sectioned human heart, extracted at the time of this patient’s autopsy, depicts a superior view of the aortic valve, which had been damaged due to a case of rheumatic heart disease. Note the thickened, fused valve leaflets and the severe stenosis, or stricture of the aortic lumen, all due to this disease. (Courtesy of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Public Health Image Library. Image 848. Photograph by Dr. Edwin P Ewing Jr, CDC, 1973. Public domain.)

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