I recently received an interesting question from Paul about aortic stenosis and nutrition. Paul writes, “Hi Adam – I’m in my 40’s and just diagnosed with a severely leaking aortic valve. I was told I need a mechanical valve or I…
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I recently received an interesting question from Paul about aortic stenosis and nutrition. Paul writes, “Hi Adam – I’m in my 40’s and just diagnosed with a severely leaking aortic valve. I was told I need a mechanical valve or I…
Last Thursday, I found myself at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Oakland, California. My reasons for traveling to Northern California were two-fold. First, I wanted to meet Dr. Junaid Khan, a leading minimally invasive heart valve surgeon on the We…
Talk about a great coincidence… Just a few minutes after receiving this patient question, Dr. Lars Svensson — the Director of the Aorta Center at the Cleveland Clinic – walked up to my booth at the 47th annual Society of Thoracic Su…
Advances in medical technology for valvular treatment continue to evolve rapidly. Recently, I learned more about the use of Extracelluar Matrix (ECM) for heart valve repair and remodeling from Dr. Marc Gerdisch, the chief of cardiothoracic surgery at …
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Since launching our patient and caregiver social network last year, HeartValveJournals.com has undergone extraordinary growth.
To give you some idea as to how fast this online community has grown, consider that over the past 6 months our …