Patient Care

IN THIS SECTION 1. Overview 2. Diagnosis 3. Treatment Recommendations 4. Case Studies

 

Overview

The Howard Gilman Institute for Heart Valve Disease opens the doors to a healthy heart by taking advantage of state-of-the-art technology to evaluate and provide treatment recommendations to patients and their physicians.

The optimum strategy for managing heart valve disease is different for each patient and is based on:

• Type and severity of the valve abnormality.
• Response of the heart muscle to the valve dysfunction.
• Constantly changing evaluation and treatment criteria resulting from ongoing research.
• Latest treatment methods.

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