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Senile non-rheumatic mitral valve calcification
BMJ 2024; 384 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2023-076186 (Published 21 March 2024) Cite this as: BMJ 2024;384:e076186
- Sameer Kassem, head,
- Nizar Hijazi, deputy head
- Department of Medicine, Lady Davies Carmel Medical Center, The Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
- Correspondence to: S Kassem sameerkassem{at}gmail.com
This is the chest radiograph of a woman in her late 80s with a history of hypertension, diabetes, heart failure, and atrial fibrillation (fig 1). She had been referred because of fever and worsening dyspnoea. Examination showed bilateral lung crackles, a …
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