Mitral valve, computer illustration. Valvular heart disease can, if found early, be managed and potentially mitigated before the need for surgery. As such, education is important so that cardiology ...

Background Heart auscultation is a widely used and cost-effective clinical tool for detecting valvular heart disease (VHD), particularly in primary care. However, existing evidence on its diagnostic ...

Heart auscultation by primary care providers detected heart murmurs in nearly 1 in 4 individuals in a Norwegian population. While murmurs were particularly useful for detecting aortic stenosis, their ...

ABOVE: An echocardiogram from the patient shows that the left side of the heart has severely thickened mitral valve leaflets (white arrow). LEFT: In this echocardiogram with color Doppler applied, the ...

MONTH AND TOMORROW IS HEART VALVE DISEASE AWARENESS DAY. SO RIGHT NOW I’M JOINED BY DOCTOR ARUN KUMAR REDDY WHO IS A CARDIOLOGIST AT UPMC. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US. REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR TIME ...

Heart murmurs are vibrations caused by abnormal blood flow, graded on a scale of one to six. Causes range from congenital defects and anemia to dental disease, inflammation, cardiomyopathy, and ...

Undiagnosed heart valve disease was highly prevalent in a large community study of otherwise healthy people recruited from primary care in the U.K., researchers found. There was a 28.2% prevalence of ...

Routine echocardiography in cancer centers can spot severe valve disease earlier and trigger timely treatment decisions.

Almost one-third of people over the age of 60 have valvular heart disease, although less than 3% have clinically significant disease, according to new registry data from the United Kingdom. The ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The prevalence of valvular heart disease increases sharply with advanced age. Nearly two-thirds of individuals ...

"Identifying an association between AMD and valvular heart disease may provide important insights to the pathogenesis of AMD, may serve as a biomarker for these diseases, and may potentially assist in ...