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Please answer! what does it mean if heart valve is damaged? how long does a person survives on medicine?
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Need more info: Outcome with valve disease depends on things like which valve, how much damage, heart size and function, symptoms, age, other diseases (including other heart diseases).
Answered 2/4/2018
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