Dear Doctors: At age 51, I was diagnosed with severe rheumatic mitral stenosis. After a second round of tests, treatment was changed from open-heart surgery to balloon valvuloplasty. What can I do to ...

Rheumatic heart disease is a chronic condition that results years after acute rheumatic fever, which is caused by group A beta-hemolytic Streptococcus pyogenes. This organism produces a pharyngitis ...

The benefit of digoxin was driven by reduced risk of new-onset or worsening HF hospitalizations, just like its benefit in ...

The heart consists of four chambers, two atria and two ventricles. The atrium of each side is connected with the ventricle, and the blood flow between the two is controlled by valves Mild cases of ...

DEAR DOCTORS: At age 51, I was diagnosed with severe rheumatic mitral stenosis. After a second round of tests, treatment was changed from open-heart surgery to balloon valvuloplasty. What can I do to ...

Although balloon valvuloplasty is an accepted treatment for symptomatic moderate mitral stenosis, patients with asymptomatic disease are often managed with ‘watchful waiting’ alone. A new study ...

THE outlook for the patient with mitral stenosis in whom objective evidence of congestive heart failure or auricular fibrillation has already developed has generally been considered grave. Studies ...

Fifty-five-year-old Chandrakanth was diagnosed with rheumatic heart disease, severe mitral stenosis in atrial fibrillation. Mitral stenosis is a disease characterised by the narrowing of the opening ...

Dear Doctors: At age 51, I was diagnosed with severe rheumatic mitral stenosis. After a second round of tests, treatment was changed from open-heart surgery to balloon valvuloplasty. What can I do to ...

Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is a major cause of chronic and serious ill-health in developing countries. It is responsible for a leading share of heart disease in children and young adults, ...

Q At age 51, I was diagnosed with severe rheumatic mitral stenosis. After a second round of tests, treatment was changed from open-heart surgery to balloon valvuloplasty. What can I do to help the ...