title: Plain chest radiography of rheumatic heart disease.
abstract: This well-illustrated article considers the role of plain film examination of the adult patient with valvular heart disease caused by rheumatic heart disease. As stressed in Dr. Elliott's article in this symposium, the importance of interpreting anatomic information within the physiologic framework provided by assessing the pulmonary vasculature cannot be overemphasized.
mesh_terms: D001022:Aortic Valve Insufficiency / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D001024:Aortic Valve Stenosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D002114:Calcinosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006332:Cardiomegaly / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006325:Heart Atria / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006439:Hemodynamics; D006801:Humans; D006976:Hypertension, Pulmonary / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008943:Mitral Valve / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008944:Mitral Valve Insufficiency / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008946:Mitral Valve Stenosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011665:Pulmonary Valve Insufficiency / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011859:Radiography; D012214:Rheumatic Heart Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014262:Tricuspid Valve Insufficiency / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging