Valvular Heart Disease in Clinical Practice

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Henein, Michael Y. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2009.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Health promotion.; Internal medicine.; Cardiology.; Infectious diseases.; Cardiac surgery.; Medicine & Public Health.; Infectious Diseases.; Cardiac Surgery.; Internal Medicine.; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.

Major advances in the management of heart valve diseases have occurred in the past three decades. Doppler echocardiography has become the cornerstone for accurate assessment of valve disease, even allowing identification of disease progression. Surgical treatment of valve disease has also witnessed...

Table of Contents:

• The Mitral Valve Disease
• Aortic Valve Disease
• Right Heart Valve Disease
• Pulmonary Valve Disease
• Stress Echo in Valvular Heart Disease
• Valve Substitutes
• Native and Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis.