Charco-Roca LM, Garví-López M, Moreno-De la Rosa L

Language: Spanish
References: 2
Page: 727-728
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ABSTRACT

Eighty-year old woman with a medical history of arterial hypertension, rheumatic valvular heart disease with mitral and aortic valve replacement, chronic atrial fibrillation and congestive heart failure dependent on domiciliary chronic oxygen for 17 daily hours. The reason for arrival to the hospital was a stroke of cardioembolic etiology.

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