Heart Valve Disease

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
HVD
Pronunciation
/hɑrt vælv dɪˈziz/
Category
Medical
Related Field
Diseases

Examples in Context

  1. Objective To study the incidence of coronary atherosclerotic heart disease in rheumatic heart valve disease.
  2. Objective To summarize the experience of surgical therapy of heart valve disease in aged patients.
  3. Many research studies have demonstrated that plasma BNP is a marker which plays an important role in the diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of heart valve disease.
  4. Changes of immunological function after cardiopulmonary bypass on patients with rheumatic heart valve disease
  5. " hypertension, inflammation of the heart muscle ( myocarditis ) or of its inner or outer membrane ( endocarditis, pericarditis ), and heart valve disease. "

Other meanings of HVD