Cardiac Valvular Medicine || Exercise Testing in Aortic Stenosis and in Mitral Regurgitation

✍ Scribed by Rajamannan, Nalini M.

• Book ID: 120087033
• Publisher: Springer London
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 679 KB
• Edition: 2013
• Category: Article
• ISBN: 1447141326
• DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4471-4132-7_6

✦ Synopsis

The book will be written by the experts in the disease including imaging, interventional cardiology and surgical valve expertise. The book has five main sections: Aortic Valve Disease Mitral Valve Disease Tricuspid Valve Disease Pulmonic Valve Disease Multimodality Imaging The main objectives of the book are: 1- to provide the main guidelines to clinicians on how to identify and diagnose valvular heart disease 2- to provide an overview of what the near future will bring in the diagnosis, prevention and risk stratification of patients to catheter versus surgical approaches 3- to outline the possible implications for medical therapies in slowing progression of calcific aortic valve disease and myxomatous mitral valve disease