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What does valvulitis mean?

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Noun
  1. (pathology) Inflammation of a valve, especially a heart valve.
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There may be myocarditis or pericarditis in addition to the valvulitis.
Though quite rare today, sexually transmitted diseases can present as syphilitic aortitis, syphilitic aortic aneurysm, syphilitic aortic valvulitis with aortic regurgitation or syphilitic coronary ostial stenosis.
Twenty-one percent of patients examined had valvulitis or endocarditis.
The diagnosis of subclinical valvulitis and valvulopathy influences the secondary prophylaxis of rheumatic fever and endocarditis.
The other is a healed rheumatic valvulitis with marked degenerative changes due to hemodynamic injury and possibly acquired degenerative calcific stenosis as well.
The disease causes arterial aneurysms, valvulitis, and myocarditis.

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