A Series of articles from Nature Reviews Cardiology on valvular heart diseases, including mitral valve, tricuspid valve and aortic valve disease, discussing the latest findings on mechanisms, diagnosis and management
Valvular heart diseases (VHDs) encompass a number of common cardiovascular conditions and account for 10% to 20% of all cardiac surgical procedures in the United States. A better understanding of the natural history of VHDs coupled with the major advances in diagnostic imaging, interventional ...
Valvular diseaseAlthough echocardiography remains the mainstay imaging technique for the evaluation of patients with valvular heart disease (VHD), innovations in noninvasive imaging in the past few years have provided new insights into the pathophysiology and quantification of VHD, early detection of ...
3.6 Valvular heart disease Valvular heart disease (VHD) is a structural or functional abnormality of cardiac valves. The main causes of VHD are calcific aortic stenosis in the elderly, floppy mitral valve/mitral valve prolapse associated with mitral regurgitation, bicuspid aortic valve, VHD assoc...
OPINION STATEMENT: In the United States, valvular heart disease (VHD) has a prevalence of 2.5%, most commonly presenting as aortic stenosis (AS) or mitral valve regurgitation (MR) and increasingly observed to be of a degenerative etiology. Women frequently have latent symptoms despite significant ...
Valvular heart disease (VHD) is a major cause of cardiovascular mortality and morbidity worldwide in both women and men, despite medical and interventional management improvements over the past two decades. The pathophysiology of VHD is similar in women compared to men, but there are some important...
Valvular heart disease (VHD) is characterized by an ongoing, inflammatory cellular response which results in a left ventricular hemodynamic stress change in response to valvulopathy. The current inflammatory hypothesis suggests that as the heart valve disease progresses the inflammatory cytokine response ...
As is well-known, with the aging of the population, the prevalence of acquired valvular heart disease (VHD) is rapidly growing and, today, it is among the most common causes of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Furthermore, VHD may significantly affect the patients’ well-being and ...
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(VHD). Prevalence increases markedly after age 65. Patients with mild or moderate VHD, and somepatientswith severe VHD, may have no symptoms and be unaware of their disease. Severe VHD leads to deterioration of the heart's function, which can cause shortness of breath, chest pain, ...