# Basics of Mitral Stenosis

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- Content type: Blog
- Canonical URL: https://123sonography.com/blog/common-topics/basics-mitral-stenosis
- Published: September 14, 2010
- Last updated: September 11, 2018

## Overview
Common disease in southern countries.

## Snapshot
- Category: Common Topics

## Content
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In this post, Tommy explains the basics of mitral valve stenosis. Mitral stenosis is not that common anymore. At least in western countries. The widespread use of antibiotics has pretty much eradicated the disease at least in our country. However, as an echocardiographer you still have to be familiar with the typical features of the disease since there are still a lot of immigrants in whom the disease occurs fairly frequently.

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