What does VHD stand for?

Valvular Heart Disease

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00 Hardcover Surgical techniques atlas series RD598 Cardiac surgeons from across North America, with a few colleagues in Germany, offer a visual aid for teaching procedures and techniques of operations for coronary artery disease, valvular heart disease, aortic disease, and other conditions.

Atlas of cardiac surgical techniques

Valvular heart disease involves one or more of the valves of the heart and problems with the valves can occur at birth or can be acquired throughout life due to other causes.

Leading Cause of Death in US

The other sections provide useful medical information including the aetiology of CHF and evidence for the diagnosis of CHF, and other management strategies including pharmacological therapy, devices (eg, pacing), surgery, and treatment of associated disorders such as cardiac arrhythmia, valvular heart disease, and chronic heart disease.

Chronic heart failure: guidelines for the prevention, detection and ...

Valvular heart disease and the use of dopamine agonists for Parkinson's disease.

Unfounded fears could limit prostate cancer treatment options

Pergolide Off the Market, Heart Disease Risk Pergolide (Permax) is being withdrawn from the market after reports of serious valvular heart disease associated with the drug.

Pharmacology Watch: Long-Awaited Torcetrapib Will Not Be Released, ...

Pergolide Off the Market, Heart Disease Risk Pergolide (Permax) is being withdrawn from the market after reports of serious valvular heart disease associated with the drug.

Pharmacology Watch: Long-Awaited Torcetrapib Will Not Be Released, ...

Valvular heart disease was first described in association with pergolide in 2002.

Permax and generic pergolides withdrawn due to concerns about heart ...

Patients with Parkinson's disease who received the drugs pergolide or cabergoline had profoundly higher rates of clinically significant valvular heart disease than did those taking other dopamine agonists, in two European studies.

Two Parkinson's drugs linked with valve damage