Heart Failure and Heart Valve Disease | Heart Valve Disease - Treatment and follow up

Introduction

Learning objectives

Welcome to this session on the treatment and follow-up of heart valve disease (HVD).

This session aims to explain:

• indications for intervention in patients with HVD (aortic stenosis and mitral regurgitation)
• which therapeutic options are available
• the risks and benefits of different treatments, which patients need to know, and the outcomes after treatment
• the long-term prognosis, and the lifestyle changes required
• how to recognise treatment failure

At the end of this session you will know how to:

• recognise the indications for intervention in patients with heart valve disease
• discuss the therapeutic options available for patients with heart valve disease
• identify the risks and benefits of the treatments which patients need to know
• recognise what factors determine the care patients receive – shared care, role of MDT working, NICE and the NHS, risks of anticoagulant therapy
• describe the outcomes after treatment, the aspects of recovery, follow-up and the medications required post-treatment
• discuss the long-term prognosis, lifestyle changes and how to recognise treatment failure