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(Circulation. 1957;16:713.)
© 1957 American Heart Association, Inc.

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The Natural History of Rheumatic Heart Disease in the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Decades of Life

II. Prognosis with Special Reference to Morbidity

MELVILLE G. MAGIDA M.D.¹ FRANKLIN H. STREITFELD M.D¹

¹ From The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, Department of Pediatrics, New York, N. Y.

This report is intended to contribute to an understanding of the natural morbidity of patients with chronic rheumatic heart disease in the third, fourth, and fifth decades of life. The data should prove useful in a consideration of the criteria for surgical intervention.