Valvular Heart Disease in Clinical Practice

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Henein, Michael Y. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2009.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Internal medicine.; Cardiology.; Emerging infectious diseases.; Heart > Surgery.; Medicine & Public Health.; Infectious Diseases.; Cardiac Surgery.; Internal Medicine.; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-275-3

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:

• Section I: Left heart valve disease: Mitral valve
• Mitral stenosis
• Mitral regurgitation. Section II: Aortic valve disease: Anatomy and physiology
• Aetiology and aortic valve disease
• Pathophysiology
• Aortic stenosis
• Aortic regurgitation
• Right heart valve disease
• Endocarditis.