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Closed Mitral Commissurotomy in Children

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Rheumatic Valvular Disease in Children

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Ceylon (Sri Lanka) is a small island of 25 000 square miles in the Indian Ocean with a comparatively large population of 13.5 million people. More than 50% of the population earn less than RS 400/month (U.S. $ 50.00). One of the major problems that confronts public health workers is malnutrition and overcrowded living quarters among the laboring class of citizens in search of work. The families are large, and six or eight persons may share a dilapidated makeshift shack of 10 x 12 feet in the slums of the city. Infection and cross infection is common under these conditions. Even in the villages, living accommodation is woefully inadequate due to economic pressure. It is not surprising that against this background mitral stenosis is now one of the commonest cardiac diseases in Ceylon.

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  1. A. T. S. Paul
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  1. Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Hadassah University Hospital and Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel

    Joseph B. Borman M.B., B. Ch. (Wits), F.R.C.S. (Eng), FA.C.S., F.A.C.C. (Professor of Surgery, Head) (Professor of Surgery, Head)

  2. Department of Cardiology, Hadassah University Hospital and Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel

    Mervyn S. Gotsman M.D., F.R.C.P., F.R.C.P. (G), F.A.C.C (Professor of Medicine, Head) (Professor of Medicine, Head)

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Paul, A.T.S. (1980). Closed Mitral Commissurotomy in Children. In: Borman, J.B., Gotsman, M.S. (eds) Rheumatic Valvular Disease in Children. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-95371-2_7

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