老年性退行性心瓣膜病大部分是正常心脏瓣膜老龄改变的强化,但也不能除外其病理意义。在老年人中,退行性病变引起的心瓣膜病是在该年龄阶段比较具有临床意义的心瓣膜疾病。据国外资料,心脏的瓣膜硬化或钙化在老年人中甚为常见,甚至超过缺血性心脏病的发病率,实际上两者常同时存在。 Most of the elderly patients with degenerative heart disease is the enhancement of aging of the normal heart valve, but it can not be excluded except its pathological significance. In elderly people, valvular disease caused by degenerative disease is a more clinically significant heart valve disease at this age. According to foreign information, the heart valve sclerosis or calcification in the elderly is very common, even more than the incidence of ischemic heart disease, in fact, the two often exist.