Valvular Heart Disease: New Strategies. Non-Invasive, Interventional and Surgical Approaches

Valvular Heart Disease: New Strategies will provide a comprehensive, state of the art, panorama of the new pathophysiologic insights, diagnostic methods, surgical and medical therapeutic approaches for valvular heart diseases and project the new strategies available. Valvular Heart Disease is a major world-wide problem despite the decline of rheumatic heart disease due to the emergence of new causes of valve diseases and the expected aging of the population in the new millennium. The course will provide expert review of new types of surgical interventions of the latest progress in reparative techniques and of the new prostheses available. The alternative options of medical treatment with new and potent drugs and of percutaneous catheter-based interventions with newly developed devices will be discussed. The controversial issue of intervention in asymptomatic patients and the new insights in the selection process for this type of patients will be debated. The latest development in Doppler echocardiographic concepts and their application in clinical practice will be presented didactically. The daunting problem of left ventricular dysfunction due to valvular heart disease and its analysis from bench to bedside will be discussed.
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