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Heart Valve Voice - The UK’s dedicated heart valve disease charity
Heart Valve Voice is a charity dedicated to improving the treatment of heart valve disease and raising awareness about this condition. Our organisation is a collective of individuals impacted by heart valve disease, including patients, carers, family members, clinical experts, cardiac societies, industry supporters, and policyma
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Heart team
Once a diagnosis of structural heart disease has been made, individualised treatment is important. This is because it is not only the clinical diagnosis, such as mitral valve regurgitation, tricuspid regurgitation or aortic valve stenosis, that differ in their treatment options. In addition, important influencing factors such as the stage of the disease, other existing medical conditions or age can also be decisive for the further medical procedure.
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Heart failure: you can recognize acute decompensation by these warning signs
In patients with heart failure, acute decompensation can occur during the course of the diseas
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Healthy lifestyle: lowering cholesterol naturally
Lowering cholesterol without tablets - that's possible too!
