A working group convened by the British Heart Valve Society produced recommendations to improve the detection, conservative management, and interventional treatment of valve disease in the community.
This document provides expert consensus recommendations from the British Heart Valve Society to improve the community detection of heart valve disease.
The clinical care of patients with valve disease is best organised by multidisciplinary specialist valve teams. These supervise inpatient and outpatient care, design protocols and processes and coordinate training and education. However, valve disease may not be detected or, if detected, a referral to a specialist team may not be made. This leads to preventable premature death. A working group was therefore convened the British Heart Valve Society with of all interested national and a panel of invited international. The overall aim was to recommendations to improve the, conservative management and treatment of valve disease. document focuses on the detection of disease. This occurs principally, but exclusively, in the community
Arden et al. (Thu,) conducted a review in heart valve disease. A working group convened by the British Heart Valve Society produced recommendations to improve the detection, conservative management, and interventional treatment of valve disease in the community.