What Causes Heart Valve Disease?
Heart conditions and other disorders, age-related changes, rheumatic fever, or infections can cause acquired heart valve disease. These factors change the shape or flexibility of once-normal heart valves. The cause of congenital heart valve disease isn't know.
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- Language: English
- Source: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
- Date Content Published: Friday, October 30, 2015 at 12:00 PM
- Date Syndication Captured: Wednesday, March 16, 2016 at 02:15 PM
- Date Syndication Updated: Thursday, July 09, 2026 at 01:07 AM
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