Valvular Heart Disease

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Contents 1 More Specific Terms 2 Introduction 3 Classification 4 Etiology 5 More General Terms 6 References

More Specific Terms

• aortic insufficiency (AI)
• aortic valvular stenosis (AS)
• bicuspid aortic valve
• endocarditis
• mitral regurgitation (MR)
• mitral stenosis (MS)
• mitral valve prolapse (MVP)
• pulmonary valvular stenosis
• pulmonic regurgitation (pulmonary valve regurgitation)
• pulmonic valvular stenosis
• rheumatic heart disease/rheumatic fever
• tricuspid regurgitation (TR)
• tricuspid stenosis (TS)

Introduction

• Any disease process involving one or more of the heart valves.

Classification

• aortic valve disease

• aortic stenosis
• aortic insufficiency

• mitral valve disease

• mitral stenosis
• mitral insufficiency

• tricuspid valve disease

• tricuspid stenosis
• tricuspid insufficiency

• pulmonary valve disease

• pulmonary valve stenosis
• pulmonary valve insufficiency

Etiology

• congenital

• tetralogy of Fallot
• Ebstein's anomaly

• acquired

• rheumatic heart disease
• endocarditis

• see more specific type

More General Terms

• heart disease (cardiac disease)

References

1. Heart Valve Diseases: NIH Institute and Center Resources [1]
2. National Guideline Clearinghouse Valvular and structural heart disease. American College of Chest Physicians evidence-based clinical practice guidelines (8th edition). ngc-guideline: [2]
   - ACC/AHA 2006 guidelines for the management of patients with valvular heart disease. A report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Writing Committee to Revise the 1998 Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Valvular Heart Disease ngc-guideline: [3]
3. Bonow RO, Carabello BA, Chatterjee K, de Leon AC Jr, Faxon DP, Freed MD, Gaasch WH, Lytle BW, Nishimura RA, O'gara PT, O'rourke RA, Otto CM, Shah PM, Shanewise JS, Smith SC Jr, Jacobs AK, Adams CD, Anderson JL, Antman EM, Faxon DP, Fuster V, Halperin JL, Hiratzka LF, Hunt SA, Lytle BW, Nishimura R, Page RL, Riegel B. ACC/AHA 2006 Practice Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Valvular Heart Disease: Executive Summary A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Writing Committee to Revise the 1998 Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Valvular Heart Disease) Developed in Collaboration With the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists Endorsed by the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2006 Aug 1;48(3):598-675. No abstract available. <PubMed> PMID: [4] <Internet> [5]
4. Nkomo VT et al, Burden of valvular heart diseases: A population-based study. Lancet 2006, 368:1005 PMID: [6]
5. Wikipedia: Valvular heart disease [7]
6. National Guideline Clearinghouse Guidelines on the management of valvular heart disease. European Society of Cardiology ngc-guideline: [8]
   - 2008 focused update incorporated into the ACC/AHA 2006 guidelines for the management of patients with valvular heart disease. A report of the American College of Cardiology/ American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Writing Committee to Revise the 1998 Guidelines for the Management of Patients with Valvular Heart Disease). ngc-guideline: [9]

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