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Systolic Anterior Motion of the Mitral Valve

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A 78 year-old female patient presented with a prolonged history of increasing dyspnoea on exertion. She had no history of rheumatic fever or infective endocarditis but was under serial echocardiography follow up with a known murmur.

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Moorjani, N., Rana, B.S., Wells, F.C. (2018). Systolic Anterior Motion of the Mitral Valve. In: Operative Mitral and Tricuspid Valve Surgery. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4204-1_15

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