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We could not assess other factors that have shown to be associated with atrial fibrillation, such as hypokalemia or calcified aortic/mitral valves, [ 41 ] although there are many similarities between the risk factors for valvular heart disease and atrial fibrillation in chronic dialysis patients.
In the only true prospective study comparing risk in exposed and unexposed persons, Jick, et al [ 16 ] identified clinically diagnosed valvular disease using the large UK General Practice Research Database.
Wyeth has set aside over $16 billion to compensate the thousands of patients who have developed valvular heart disease and pulmonary hypertension after taking Fen-Phen [18].
Indeed, the most recently published study (which did not suffer from measurement bias) showed a high prevalence (30%) of AR in persons taking fenfluramine or dexfenfluramine at the time of the echocardiogram, similar to the older prevalence studies [ 15 ] . Regarding the potential reversibility of valve dysfunction, great caution must be exercised in assuming any substantial reversal of valvular plaques, as recent pathological studies suggest a progressive nature to these lesions [ 33 ] . Furthermore, limited, early apparent echocardiographic improvement of acute rheumatic carditis has also been recently demonstrated [ 34 ] . The early improvement seen in this setting certainly does not preclude later progression of rheumatic valvular heart disease.
These findings lend strong support to the view that fenfluramine and dexfenfluramine are potent causal factors in the development of both aortic and mitral valvular heart disease.
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