Aortic Stenosis Archives - Heart Valve Voice US https://www.heartvalvevoice-us.org/tag/aortic-stenosis/ Giving a voice to people with heart valve disease Thu, 16 Sep 2021 16:01:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://www.heartvalvevoice-us.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/cropped-Favicon-32x32.png Aortic Stenosis Archives - Heart Valve Voice US https://www.heartvalvevoice-us.org/tag/aortic-stenosis/ 32 32 Elderly heart valve patients willing to accept more risks from treatment options to maintain independence https://www.heartvalvevoice-us.org/elderly-heart-valve-patients-willing-to-accept-more-risks-from-treatment-options-to-maintain-independence/ Mon, 17 Jun 2019 14:56:38 +0000 https://hvvprod.wpengine.com/?p=7593 New study finds that elderly patients would tolerate substantially more risk of death, stroke, and other negative clinical outcomes if a procedure allows them to regain their independence more quickly. Research published in the open-source journal F1000Research aimed to uncover which clinical outcomes patients consider most important when it comes to decision-making for heart disease […]

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]]> Patient Perspective: Natalie’s Story (Gaithersburg, Maryland) https://www.heartvalvevoice-us.org/patient-perspective-natalies-story-gaithersburg-maryland/ Mon, 12 Nov 2018 19:46:50 +0000 https://hvvprod.wpengine.com/?p=7089 I was 79 and overweight. Surely, I thought, this was why I was less and less able to do even the simplest of things, like getting dressed in the morning, without getting more and more out of breath! I had always been active, but like many, I was accepting what I thought was the inevitable. […]

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