Preferred Citation: Selzer, Arthur, M.D. Understanding Heart Disease. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1992 1992. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft9w1009p7/


 

R

Radiation therapy, pericarditis and, 157 , 158

Radiography, 33 , 33 -34

angiocardiography, 43

Regurgitation, 126 -127

Regurgitation, aortic, 131 , 143 -145, 193

causes, 143 -144

complications, 145

diagnosis, 144

prognosis, 144 -145

Regurgitation, mitral, 118 , 130 -131, 140 , 143 , 191

causes, 140 -141

in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, 154

infective endocarditis and, 143

ischemic, 142 -143

rheumatic, 141

Regurgitation, pulmonary, 145

Rheumatic fever, 127 -128

aortic regurgitation and, 144

epidemiology, 127 , 137

mitral stenosis and, 133 -134


210

Rupture

cardiac, 90 , 118

of chordae tendineae, 142

of ventricular septum, 118


 

Preferred Citation: Selzer, Arthur, M.D. Understanding Heart Disease. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1992 1992. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft9w1009p7/