What does VD stand for?

Valvular Disease

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Dostinex should be used with caution in patients who have hemodynamically significant valvular disease or have been exposed to other medications associated with valvulopathy.

Dostinex (cabergoline) tablets

Valvular disease commences with the oxido-inflammatory damage and as the process progresses many of the valves become thickened and calcified.

Citric acid as a decalcifying agent for the excised calcified human ...

Moderate Chest pain, pounding heart, difficulty urinating, difficulty breathing or swelling while taking this medication Severe Primary pulmonary hypertension (PPH) and cardiac valvular disease have been reported in patients receiving a combination of Phentermine and Fenfluramine (Phen-fen) or dexfenfluramine.

What Phentermine Does and What It Does not?

Corazon develops technologies to manage calcific cardiovascular and valvular disease during interventional and surgical procedures.

Personnel File

2001;125:1555-1561) ********** In 1997, Connolly et al (1) published a landmark study of valvular disease in patients who had taken the anorectic drug combination fenfluramine-phentermine (fen-phen).

Aortic and mitral fenfluramine-phentermine valvulopathy in 64 ...

Initial clinical trials of the blood test on 300 patients at Leicester Royal Infirmary have proved 'very promising' at picking out not only heart failure but other forms of cardiac disease, such as valvular disease and hypertension.

The test to detect heart failure that costs just [pounds sterling]1 ...

Moderate risk patients include other congenital malformations (except isolated secundum atrial septal defect), mitral valve prolapse with regurgitation or thickened mitral valve leaflets, acquired valvular disease, and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

Infective Endocarditis Prophylaxis

The problem, says FDA medical officer Eric Colman, MD, is that it isn't known whether it was the combination of the drugs that led to valvular disease or whether each drug has that potential on its own.

The aftermath of fen/phen: Obesity still not treated as a chronic ...