Aortic stenosis from chronic rheumatic heart disease is typically associated with aortic insufficiency. The valve commissures and cuspis become adherent and fused, and the valve orifice becomes small. Upon auscultation, S2 may be single because the aortic leaflets are immobile and do not produce an aortic closure sound
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Rheumatic aortic stenosis with insufficiencyrheumatic aortic stenosis with incompetencerheumatic aortic stenosis with regurgitationrheumatic aortic valve stenosis with insufficiency
Nearby in Aortic valve stenosis with insufficiency