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Causes of mitral stenosis
Rheumatic heart disease
 - Most common cause worldwide. Commissural fusion, thick MV leaflets
Causes of mitral ... fibrosis, Whipple's ... vegetations)/tumor (left ... atrial myxoma)/ ... ball valve thrombus
Tropical Endomyocardial Fibrosis (EMF)
snrunken ventnoes
Hallmark chronic EMF features include:
 • Apical obliteration of the left and/or
obliteration of the left ... as a 3-layered delayed ... with overlying thrombus ... ventricles and marked atria ... muscles leading to mitral