Main description:

This book provides up-to-date and user-friendly guidance on the evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of heart and vascular disease. Chapters cover a broad range of issues related to valve disease, including rheumatic fever, aortic root dilatation, infective endocarditis, and heart disease in pregnancy. The physical examination of major valve lesions, imaging techniques, and choosing a balance therapy are also discussed.

Valvular Heart Disease aims to give readers exposure to guideline-directed therapy and therapeutic decisions and is relevant to trainee and practising cardiologists, cardiac surgeons, vascular surgeons, and cardiac radiologists.

Contents:

Valvular Heart Disease: Pathological Anatomy and Pathogenesis.- Acute Rheumatic Fever.- Infective Endocarditis.- Inflammation Injury and Selected Disease Processes Causing Aortic Root and Aortic Valvular Inflammation.- Comprehensive Approach to Aortic Valve Disease.- Comprehensive Assessment of Primary Mitral Valve Disease: Clinical Presentation, Diagnosis, Medical and Surgical Therapy.- Secondary Mitral Regurgitation.- Innovative Approaches to Mitral Valve Repair and Replacement.- Tricuspid, Pulmonic and Mixed Valve Disease.- Trans-Catheter Aortic Valve Replacement.- Valve Prosthesis.- Heart Disease in Pregnancy.- Evidenced-Based and Practical Management of Real-World Valvular Heart Disease.