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Allegheny General Hospital Receives Recognition as a Mitral Valve Repair Reference Center from the American Heart Association and the Mitral Foundation prweb.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from prweb.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
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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
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First medical centers earn new recognition for best practices in heart valve repair
American Heart AssociationDecember 16, 2020 GMT
( NewMediaWire ) - December 16, 2020 - DALLAS - As part of the effort to increase adherence to clinical guidelines that recommend mitral valve repair over replacement for better patient outcomes, the American Heart Association and the Mitral Foundation have presented five hospitals with the Mitral Valve Repair Reference Center award.
The Mitral Foundation, which is dedicated to the global teaching and promotion of mitral valve repair, and the American Heart Association, the world’s leading voluntary organization devoted to a world of longer, healthier lives, recently established this collaborative recognition program. The program aims to increase the number of patients who receive mitral valve reconstruction where appropriate, rather than replacement, which