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Prevalence and characteristics of primary left-sided valve disease in a cohort of 15,000 patients undergoing echocardiography studies in a tertiary hospital in Uganda

BMC Cardiovascular Disorders, 2018
Background Although rheumatic heart disease remains the leading cause of valve heart disease (VHD) in developing countries, other forms of valve disease have been over shadowed and not regarded as a public health problem.
Joselyn Rwebembera, William Manyilirah, Zhang Wan Zhu, Juliet Nabbaale, Judith Namuyonga, Isaac Ssinabulya, Sulaiman Lubega, Peter Lwabi, John Omagino, Emmy Okello   +9 more
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Multimodality imaging in heart valve disease [PDF]

Open Heart, 2016
In patients with heart valve disease, echocardiography is the mainstay for diagnosis, assessment and serial surveillance. However, other modalities, notably cardiac MRI and CT, are used if echocardiographic imaging is suboptimal but can also give complementary information to improve assessment of the valve lesion and cardiac compensation to aid the ...
Chambers, John B, Myerson, Saul G, Rajani, Ronak, Morgan-Hughes, Gareth J, Dweck, Marc R; id_orcid 0000-0001-9847-5917   +4 more
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Health-Related Quality of Life after Valve Replacement Surgery

Journal of Client-centered Nursing Care, 2015
Background: Heart valve disease gradually increases the pressure in the heart chambers and impairs heart pumping. It influences on quality of life due to low output, disability, fear, amnesia, anxiety, and depression.
Parviz Namazi, Seyed Saeed Hosseni, Noordin Mohammadi   +2 more
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Natriuretic peptides in heart valve disease [PDF]

Heart, 2005
Synthesis and release of B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) are increased in heart failure, and plasma concentrations provide important therapeutic and prognostic information. Recent studies have shown that BNP concentrations are also increased with disease of the mitral and aortic valves.
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Natural biomaterials in the management of the aortic valve pathology. Biomedical and clinical aspects: A review

Biomolecules & Biomedicine
Heart valve diseases are a prevalent cardiovascular pathology worldwide, affecting nearly 2.5% of the population. Degenerative aortic stenosis is the most common form of heart valve disease.
Igor Mokryk, Illia Nechai, Christoph Schmitz, Ihor Stetsyuk, Oleksandr Talalaiev, Borys Todurov   +5 more
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Multimodality Imaging of Heart Valve Disease

Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia, 2014
Unidentified heart valve disease is associated with a significant morbidity and mortality. It has therefore become important to accurately identify, assess and monitor patients with this condition in order that appropriate and timely intervention can occur.
Rajani, Ronak, Khattar, Rajdeep, Chiribiri, Amedeo, Victor, Kelly, Chambers, John   +4 more
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Altered Hemodynamics in the Embryonic Heart Affects Outflow Valve Development

Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease, 2015
Cardiac valve structure and function are primarily determined during early development. Consequently, abnormally-formed heart valves are the most common type of congenital heart defects.
Vinal Menon, John F. Eberth, Richard L. Goodwin, Jay D. Potts   +3 more
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The Turkish registry of heart valve disease

Turk Kardiyoloji Dernegi Arsivi-Archives of the Turkish Society of Cardiology, 2013
Valvular heart diseases (VHD) occur frequently in Turkey. However, epidemiological studies of VHD have not been completed until now. The aim of this study is to identify the VHD type, clinical, laboratory characteristics, and treatment methods among VHD patients in Turkey.The study was conducted prospectively between June 2009 and June 2011 at 42 ...
Recep Demirbağ, Leyla Elif Sade, Mustafa Aydın, Abdi Bozkurt, Esmeray Acartürk   +4 more
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Surgery for valvular heart disease: a population-based study in a Brazilian urban center.

PLoS ONE, 2012
BackgroundIn middle income countries, the burden of rheumatic heart disease (RHD) remains high, but the prevalence of other heart valve diseases may rise as the population life expectancy increases.
Guilherme S Ribeiro, Sara Y Tartof, Dalton W S Oliveira, Aldalice C S Guedes, Mitermayer G Reis, Lee W Riley, Albert I Ko   +6 more
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Innovations in Therapies for Heart Valve Disease

Circulation Journal, 2011
The burden of heart valve disease among adults is enormous in the developed world. Increased life expectancy and age-related valvular degeneration remain the predominant contributors to heart valve dysfunction, which if uncorrected lead to congestive heart failure and increased morbidity and mortality.
Padala, Muralidhar, Keeling, William Brent, Guyton, Robert A., Thourani, Vinod H.   +3 more
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