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Koilonychia in a Patient with Heart Failure and Iron Deficiency Anemia

      An 83-year-old woman treated with diuretics for aortic valve regurgitation and chronic heart failure (CHF) was referred to our hospital with a 2-month history of bipedal pitting edema without redness and warmth.
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