The Many Meanings of Awareness
The focus of Heart Valve Disease Awareness Day 2020 is to call attention to an under-diagnosed, deadly but treatable disease...
Watch Our Webinar: Add Your Voice – Valve Disease Day 2020
Did you miss our webinar on January 22, 2020? Valve Disease Day 2020 is coming up in February and...
Watch Our Event: A Briefing on Emerging Issues in Mitral Valve Disease
Did you miss our briefing on Capitol Hill January 21st, 2020? Watch it now!
New Options for Heart Valve Patients: What You Should Consider
Perplexed about what it means to be a “low risk” heart valve patient? Confused about the difference between “surgery” and...
Watch Our Webinar: Living With Heart Valve Disease
Did you miss our webinar on October 29th, 2019? You can tune in now!
Watch Our Webinar: Innovation and the Future of Heart Valve Disease
Did you miss our webinar on July 30th, 2019? You can tune in now! Be sure to download the...
Watch Our Webinar: Patients Helping Patients
Did you miss our webinar on June 26th, 2019? You can tune in now! Be sure to download the...
Elderly heart valve patients willing to accept more risks from treatment options to maintain independence
New study finds that elderly patients would tolerate substantially more risk of death, stroke, and other negative clinical outcomes if...
Watch Our Webinar: What You Need to Know About Medicare’s Proposed TAVR Decision and How to Lend Your Voice to Make a Difference
Did you miss our webinar on April 16th, 2019? You can tune in now! Be sure to download the slides....
Moving Toward a Heart Team Approach; Information to Empower Patients
When a person is newly diagnosed with any disease or serious medical condition, they are often flooded both with anxiety and unfamiliar medical terms. The weight of the unknown can overwhelm. Patients diagnosed with heart valve disease hear words like: stenosis, regurgitation, heart failure, valve repair or replacement, blood thinners, tissue or mechanical valves, open heart surgery or minimally invasive procedure. And that list doesn’t even include any of the tests! Feeling unsure while navigating decisions about treatment is completely normal. If you or a loved one is in this situation, you’ve earned the right to feel anxious.