Your Heart: A Powerful, Life-Sustaining Pump
Your heart is an amazing organ that works non-stop to keep you alive. Every day, it beats about 100,000 times, pumping around 7,200 litres of blood through your body. This blood carries oxygen and nutrients to all your organs and tissues. The heart is about the size of your fist and sits slightly tilted behind your breastbone. It’s made up of two sides, separated by a wall called the septum. Each side has two chambers: an atrium (upper chamber) and
British Heart Foundation at the https://www.bhf.org.uk Heart Failure Matters https://www.heartfailurematters.org/ https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/heart-failure/
9-UK-5-16530-01 08-2025
Questions about heart failure? How to find reliable information
If you want to find out more about heart failure, there are fortunately many ways of accessing information on the Internet. It is important to distinguish good and reputable sources of information from advertising and fake news. Here you can
https://www.bhf.org.uk/informationsupport/support/healthy-living/healthy-eating https://www.heartuk.org.uk/low-cholesterol-foods/choose-low-cholesterol-foods https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/heart-attack/prevention/
9-UK-5-16533-01 08-2025
Eat what your heart desires: how to eat a balanced and heart-healthy diet.
Too many calories, fats and too much sugar damage the heart and blood vessels - unfortunately, this is even more true for people who already suffer from cardiovascular diseas
Downloads and brochures
A Guide to Treating Your Mitral Regurgitation
DOWNLOAD FILE
(PDF | 1,0 MB)
Mitral Valve Regurgitation Treatment Options
DOWNLOAD FILE
(PDF | 0,5 MB)
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT EPIC™ VALVE THERAPY
DOWNLOAD FILE
(PDF | 0,2 MB)
UNDERSTANDING TRICUSPID REGURGITATION
DOWNLOAD FILE
(PDF | 1,4 MB)
9-UK-5-16539-01 08-2025
Clinic search
9-UK-5-16535-01 08-2025
In urgent cases, please contact your doctor!
9-UK-5-16540-01 08-2025
Organisations & Links
Further information for doctors
FIND OUT MORE
9-UK-5-16538-01 08-2025
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
2021 European Society of Cardiology (ESC)/European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS). Vahanian A. et al: Guidelines for the management of valvular heart disease. European Heart Journal (2022) 43, 561-632, DGK position paper. Möllmann H. et al: Tricuspid valve regurgitation. Cardiology (2022) 16: 372-382. German Society of Cardiology - Cardiovascular Research e.V. (2022). ESC/EACTS Pocket Guidelines. Valvular heart disease, version 2021. Börm Bruckmeier Verlag GmbH, Grünwald
https://www.nice.org.uk/cks-uk-only#:~:text=If%20the%20NT%2Dpro%2DBNP,be%20seen%20within%206%20weeks https://www.bhf.org.uk/informationsupport/heart-matters-magazine/medical/ask-the-experts/troponin https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/heart-failure/bnp-blood-test https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diagnostics/22629-b-type-natriuretic-peptide https://ecgwaves.com/topic/cardiac-troponin-i-tni-and-t-tnt-interpretation-and-evaluation-in-acute-coronary-syndromes/ https://my.cleveland
https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/heart-failure/compensated-heart-failure https://healthy.kaiserpermanente.org/health-wellness/health-encyclopedia/he.heart-failure-compensation-by-the-heart-and-body.aa86963 https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/decompensated-vs-compensated-heart-failure
9-UK-5-16528-01 08-2025
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 dis
