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THE AORTIC INSUFFICIENCY

- Definition
- A few explanations
- The Symptoms
- How to make the diagnosis?
- Complications
- The Causes
- Evolution
- Treatment
- Conclusion

CONCLUSION

Currently, the chronic aortic insufficiency is an affection discovered on occasion of the clinical exam practiced by the physician. Its check up is stereotyped as well as its surveillance.

The problem is to make the operative indication in time, in any case before the heart is too tired.

The acute aortic insufficiency poses quite different but most often urgent problems.

File last reviewed on dec 18, 2011

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