Roughly 1 in 500 people have hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, across all nations. Research by Cleveland Clinic suggests that an estimated 600,000 to 1.5 million.
December 23, 2020
Guidelines for the management of valvular heart disease (VHD) have been refreshed by the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association the first full revision since 2014. Most salient among the changes is the inclusion of the pivotal low-risk TAVR trials that led to US Food and Drug Administration approval for that indication last fall.
With Catherine M. Otto, MD (University of Washington, Seattle), and Rick A. Nishimura, MD (Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN), as co-chairs, the multisociety-produced document was published online last week in both
Circulation and the
Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
Patrick T. O’Gara, MD (Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA), one of its authors, told TCTMD that, as for any guideline recommendations, what motivated the revision was the “publication of practice-changing science.” Beyond the low-risk TAVR trials, other influential studies included here are COAPT and MITRA-FR, both in the mitra
New guidelines call for less use of surgery to treat heart valve disease chron.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from chron.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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DALLAS and WASHINGTON, Dec. 17, 2020 Options to treat heart valve disease are expanding, allowing patients to avoid surgery when possible, according to a new joint clinical practice guideline from the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association. The new 2020 ACC/AHA Guideline for the Management of Patients With Valvular Heart Disease published today in the AHA s flagship journal
Circulation and in the
Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
About half of all people ages 65 and older have some form of valvular heart disease. If left undiagnosed or untreated in a timely fashion, valvular heart disease can become more severe and can ultimately lead to heart failure and death. Valvular heart disease can affect one or more heart valves - the structures responsible for regulating blood flow to and from the heart. The heart has four chambers for circulating blood into the heart and out to the lungs and the body, and each chamber is separated b