This photograph illustrates the mitral valve of a heart affected by rheumatic fever

This disease was most likely associated with

A. arterial hypertension
B. pulmonary hypertension
C. peripheral arterial septic emboli
D. brain abscess
E. cardiac tamponade


B
This mitral valve shows stenosis that caused an obstruction to the blood flow from the left atrium into the left ventricle. Back pressure into the pulmonary veins and arteries must have caused pulmonary hypertension, which is a common complication of mitral valve stenosis and insufficiency.

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