فراواني ضايعات دريچه اي قلب در اجساد بالغين ارجاعي

Frequency of valvular heart diseases in adult cadavers referred to autopsy hall of L.M.O in 2003

Background & Aim: Valvular Heart Diseases is an important group of Cardiovascular System Diseases all over the world. We investigated prevalence of this problem in 500 cases from April 2003 to April 2004 in Legal Medicine Organization, Tehran, Iran. Materials & Methods: In this cross-sectional study 500 cadaver of adults were investigated for signs of gross and microscopic pathology of the heart . Their past medical history was investigated and the findings were. Results: 80% of all cases these were male and 20% female. 64.8% were 19 - 44 year old, 17.2% had over weighted heart and 5.6% of cases had valvular disease. Valvular diseases were more common in the 45 - 64 age group and in this age group, Sclerotic Valvular Lesions were more common (2.8%), followed by Mitral Valve Prolapse (1.4%), Rheumatic Valvular Lesions (1%), Bicuspid Aortic Valve (0.2%) and Tricuspid Bacterial Endocarditis (0.2%). Conclusion: Results of this study correspond with other studies and we found that age dependent sclerotic change of valves is the most common lesion in valvular diseases, and also most of these cases with these changes had overweight heart and positive history of Hypertension in their life.