ALLMedicine™ Valvular Heart Disease Center

Feb 22nd, 2021 - Increasing data have accumulated on the role of Cardiac Computed Tomography (CCT) in infective endocarditis (IE) with high accuracy for large vegetations, perivalvular complications and for exclusion of coronary artery disease to avoid invasive an...

Feb 19th, 2021 - End-stage renal disease is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Kidney transplantation (KT) may lead to reversal of these cardiac changes. Echocardiographic changes in cardiac structure and function were recorded in 30 patients with end...

Feb 17th, 2021 - Inflammation is involved in the progression of degenerative valvular heart disease (DVHD). microRNA-222 (miR-222) contributes to inflammation-mediated vascular remodeling, but its involvement in DVHD in relation to atrial fibrillation (AF) is unkn...

Feb 13th, 2021 - The Latin American Association of Cardiac and Endovascular Surgery Statement regarding the recently released 2020 ACC/AHA Guidelines for the Management of Patients with Valvular Heart Disease.|2021|Dayan V,Garcia-Villarreal OA,Escobar A,Ferrari J,...

Feb 12th, 2021 - The Latin American Association of Cardiac and Endovascular Surgery statement regarding the recently released 2020 ACC/AHA Guidelines for the Management of Patients with Valvular Heart Disease.|2021|Dayan V,Garcia-Villarreal OA,Escobar A,Ferrari J,...

May 12th, 2019 - Arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (ACM) is an arrhythmogenic disorder of the myocardium not secondary to ischemic, hypertensive, or valvular heart disease. ACM incorporates a broad spectrum of genetic, systemic, infectious, and inflammatory disorders....

Apr 23rd, 2019 - 2019 AATS/ACC/ASE/SCAI/STS Expert Consensus Systems of Care Document: A Proposal to Optimize Care for Patients With Valvular Heart Disease: A Joint Report of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery, American College of Cardiology, American S...

Nov 20th, 2017 - 2017 ESC/EACTS Guidelines for the management of valvular heart disease.|2017|Falk V,Baumgartner H,Bax JJ,De Bonis M,Hamm C,|standards,standards,surgery,standards,

Sep 6th, 2017 - Standards defining a 'Heart Valve Centre': ESC Working Group on Valvular Heart Disease and European Association for Cardiothoracic Surgery Viewpoint.|2017|Chambers JB,Prendergast B,Iung B,Rosenhek R,Zamorano JL,|organization & administration,stand...

Aug 31st, 2017 - This document assesses a wide array of imaging modalities available to the clinician in the evaluation of patients with VHD. Presented here is a broad spectrum of clinical scenarios in such patients.

Feb 22nd, 2021 - Increasing data have accumulated on the role of Cardiac Computed Tomography (CCT) in infective endocarditis (IE) with high accuracy for large vegetations, perivalvular complications and for exclusion of coronary artery disease to avoid invasive an...

Feb 19th, 2021 - End-stage renal disease is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Kidney transplantation (KT) may lead to reversal of these cardiac changes. Echocardiographic changes in cardiac structure and function were recorded in 30 patients with end...

Feb 17th, 2021 - Inflammation is involved in the progression of degenerative valvular heart disease (DVHD). microRNA-222 (miR-222) contributes to inflammation-mediated vascular remodeling, but its involvement in DVHD in relation to atrial fibrillation (AF) is unkn...

Feb 13th, 2021 - The Latin American Association of Cardiac and Endovascular Surgery Statement regarding the recently released 2020 ACC/AHA Guidelines for the Management of Patients with Valvular Heart Disease.|2021|Dayan V,Garcia-Villarreal OA,Escobar A,Ferrari J,...

Feb 12th, 2021 - The Latin American Association of Cardiac and Endovascular Surgery statement regarding the recently released 2020 ACC/AHA Guidelines for the Management of Patients with Valvular Heart Disease.|2021|Dayan V,Garcia-Villarreal OA,Escobar A,Ferrari J,...

Jan 3rd, 2021 - The latest iteration of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) Guideline for the Management of Patients With Valvular Heart Disease emphasizes a less invasive approach to the management of patients with valvular he...

Oct 29th, 2020 - Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Danny Dvir, MD, has a message for physicians who have patients with severe valvular heart disease who are deferring valve replacement or repair un...

Oct 29th, 2020 - Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Danny Dvir, MD, has a message for physicians who have patients with severe valvular heart disease who are deferring valve replacement or repair un...

Oct 6th, 2020 - 2. Managing comorbid conditions is important. Although HFpEF is frequently characterized by its phenotypic heterogeneity, most patients also present with a host of other discrete, treatable medical comorbidities, such as hypertension, valvular hea...

Oct 5th, 2020 - Specific underlying factors cause various forms of heart failure, such as systolic heart failure (most commonly, left ventricular [LV] systolic dysfunction), heart failure with preserved left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), acute heart failu...