Abstract:The emphasis on the importance of the natural history of aortic regurgitation, discussed by Spagnuolo et al 1 in 1971 established the predictive criteria of clinical evolution and stimulated the development of reliable methods for follow-up of patients with aortic regurgitation.Since the decade of the ' 80s, the development of echocardiography has added imaging and other indices (for example, the so-called indices of ventricular function) 2-6 and perfected the tracing of the complex adaptive, ventricular remod… Show more
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