Heart valve diseases

Introduction: Heart valve diseases

Heart valve diseases: Diseases that affect the valves of the heart. More detailed information about the symptoms, causes, and treatments of Heart valve diseases is available below.

Symptoms of Heart valve diseases

• Chest pain
• Syncope
• Shortness of breath
• Orthopnea
• Paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnoea

See full list of 12 symptoms of Heart valve diseases

Home Diagnostic Testing

Home medical testing related to Heart valve diseases:

• High Blood Pressure: Home Testing
  • Home Blood Pressure Tests
  • Home Blood Pressure Monitors
  • Home Heart Tests
• Heart Health: Home Testing:
  • Heart Rate Monitors
  • Irregular Heartbeat Detection
  • Heart Electrocardiogram (ECG)
  • Home Cholesterol Tests

Medical Textbooks Online about Heart valve diseases

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Wrongly Diagnosed with Heart valve diseases?

• Misdiagnosis of Heart valve diseases

Misdiagnosis and Heart valve diseases

Heart attacks can be undiagnosed: Although the most severe symptoms of heart attack are hard to miss, there are varying degrees of severity. It is altogether...read more »

Heart attacks can be overdiagnosed: Although many people die from heart attacks, there are also many cases where people fear that they have a heart attack, but...read more »

Rare heart condition often undiagnosed: The rare heart condition called long QT syndrome can lead to episodes of palpitations and rapid heartbeat. In rare cases, this undiagnosed condition...read more »

Heart attack can be over-diagnosed: Although heart attack is often undiagnosed, leading to fatality, it can also be over-diagnosed. People become concerned that a condition is a heart attack...read more »

Blood pressure cuffs misdiagnose hypertension in children: One known misdiagnosis issue with hyperension, arises in relation to the simple equipment used to test blood pressure. The "cuff" around the arm...read more »

Hypertension misdiagnosis common in children: Hypertension is often misdiagnosed in adults (see misdiagnosis of hypertension), but its misdiagnosis is even...read more »

Read more about Misdiagnosis and Heart valve diseases

Causes of Heart valve diseases

• Chromosome 18 trisomy syndrome
• Holt-Oram syndrome
• Pancreatic cancer
• Transposition of great arteries
• Takayasu's arteritis

See full list of 12 causes of Heart valve diseases

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Reseach about Heart valve diseases

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Clinical Trials for Heart valve diseases

The US based website ClinicalTrials.gov lists information on both federally and privately supported clinical trials using human volunteers.

Some of the clinical trials listed on ClinicalTrials.gov for Heart valve diseases include:

• CTI-01 (Ethyl Pyruvate) Safety and Complication Prevention in Cardiac Surgery Patients on Cardiopulmonary Bypass (CPB) - This study has been terminated (Current: 23 Nov 2006) - CTI-01 (ethyl pyruvate)
• A Randomized Clinical Trial of Metoprolol in Participants With Mitral Regurgitation. - This study is currently recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006) - metoprolol succinate
• Multicenter Study on Fibrotic Valvular Heart Disease in Patients With Parkinson's Disease Treated With Dopamine Agonists - This study is currently recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006)
• "Salvage Use" of Recombinant Factor VIIa After Inadequate Haemostasis in Complex Cardiac Surgery - This study is currently recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006) - Recombinant Activated Factor VII
• The Short Form-36: Pre- Versus Post-Surgical Administration in Cardiac Surgery Patients - This study is currently recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006)

See full list of 70 Clinical Trials for Heart valve diseases

Statistics for Heart valve diseases

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• Prevalence and incidence statistics for Heart valve diseases
• Death and Mortality statistics for Heart valve diseases
• Society statistics for Heart valve diseases

Types of Heart valve diseases

• Mitral valve disease
• Mitral-valve prolapse
• Mitral regurgitation
• Mitral stenosis
• Pulmonary valve disease

See full list of 8 Types of Heart valve diseases

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Definitions of Heart valve diseases:

Diseases caused by or resulting in abnormal functioning of heart valves. - (Source - Diseases Database)