May 19th, 2014
Case: A Young Pregnant Woman with Prior Valvular Disease and Increasing Dyspnea on Exertion
Reva Balakrishnan, MD, MPH and James Fang, MD
Reva Balakrishnan presents the case of a 22-year-old pregnant woman with a history of valvular disease who is experiencing an increase in dyspnea on exertion.
March 13th, 2014
Achieving Consensus for the 2014 ACC/AHA Valvular Heart Disease Guideline
Catherine M. Otto, MD and Rick Akira Nishimura, MD
The writing committee co-chairs of the 2014 ACC/AHA Valvular Heart Disease Guideline discuss how the committee achieved consensus on the future treatment of valvular disease.
March 3rd, 2014
New Guidelines Issued for Valvular Heart Disease
Larry Husten, PHD
The American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology today released new practice guidelines for the management of patients with valvular heart disease (VHD). Among its most notable features, the new document provides a new system of classification for VHD and lowers the threshold for interventions, including, for the first time, transcatheter as well […]
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