The Hindu·3 min read·medium
Awareness, early diagnosis crucial for treating severe heart valve disease, say doctors
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The Hindu Bureau
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Cardiologists at Sri Ramachandra Medical Centre are advocating for early diagnosis and the use of TAVI, a minimally invasive heart valve procedure. They noted that symptoms of heart disease are often misidentified as normal aging, particularly among the elderly population.
Doctors at Sri Ramachandra Medical Centre (SRMC), on Tuesday, highlighted the growing use of transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI), a minimally invasive procedure to replace narrowed aortic valves in elderly patients and stressed the importance of early diagnosis of severe heart valve disease.
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