Category Archives: Treatments for heart valve disease
Palliative care
Sadly not all heart valve disease can be treated by keyhole or surgical operations. There [...]
Valve replacement
Mechanical (metal) valve About 20% of all surgical valves used in Europe and the USA [...]
Heart valve surgery
What is heart valve surgery? Heart valve surgery is a procedure where the surgeon enters [...]
Keyhole techniques
Balloon mitral valvuloplasty This is a procedure performed for patients with a condition known as [...]
Medications
In most cases patients who have a faulty heart valve that is causing symptoms or [...]
What is heart valve intervention?
There are many types of heart valve intervention. The commonest type is heart valve replacement [...]