Updated guideline for heart valve disease spotlights less invasive treatments
E-Mail DALLAS and WASHINGTON, Dec. 17, 2020 -- Options to treat heart valve disease are expanding, allowing patients to avoid surgery when possible, according to a new joint clinical practice guideline from the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association. The new "2020 ACC/AHA Guideline for the Management of Patients With Valvular Heart Disease" published today in the AHA's flagship journal Circulation and in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. About half of all people ages 65 and older have some form of valvular heart disease. If left undiagnosed or u...
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