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A week ago you were barely, if at all, aware of the aortic valve, let alone its importance. Now with news that former First Lady Barbara Bush has undergone open heart surgery to replace her defective valve and that comedian Robin Williams will soon have the same procedure, suddenly the aortic valve is front and center and on everyone’s minds. So what is it and why does it need replacing? Inquiring minds want to know.
You may remember from school that the heart has four valves, two of which rarely cause trouble (the pulmonary and the tricuspid), and two of which are more frequently in need of replacement (the mitral and the aortic).You can see them on this diagram where the pulmonary and tricuspid valves are on the right side and the aortic and mitral on the left.

One of the reasons the right side valves are less often involved in disease […]

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There’s important news for people who take digoxin, which is a heart medicine also known as digitalis that is most often prescribed for the heart rhythm disturbances called atrial fibrillation and atrial flutter. It is less commonly used to treat heart failure.
A nationwide recall of all lots of certain generic brands of digoxin, was announced on April 25, 2008 by the drug’s manufacturer, a company called Actavis Totowa, which was formerly known as Amide Pharmaceuticals. And to make matters more complex, the product is distributed by Mylan Pharmaceuticals as Digitek and by UDL Laboratories as Bertek.
The problem is that some digoxin tablets made by Actavis may contain twice the amount of active ingredient as they are supposed to. This is of particular concern because digitalis toxicity is a well-recognized potentially life-threatening complication of digoxin therapy, even in the absence of overly strong pills. Taking double the […]

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If you are an advocate of using natural remedies and you suffer from chronic heart failure, there’s good news on the beneficial effects of the herbal extract hawthorn. A recent analysis of 14 double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled clinical studies (the best types of medical studies available) found that oral preparations using hawthorn leaf and flower extracts improved both symptoms and heart function in patients with chronic heart failure. But before you rush off to the pharmacy or use the Internet to order hawthorn products, please bear in mind the following facts:
• Chronic heart failure is an extremely serious medical condition that requires careful diagnosis, ongoing monitoring and complex medical therapy
• Most of the people in the 14 medical studies were receiving hawthorn in addition to other prescription medications
• While heart failure can come on from “out of the blue,” it is most often associated with other chronic medical conditions […]

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If you are an advocate of using natural remedies and you suffer from chronic heart failure, there’s good news on the beneficial effects of the herbal extract hawthorn. A recent analysis of 14 double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled clinical studies (the best types of medical studies available) found that oral preparations using hawthorn leaf and flower extracts improved both symptoms and heart function in patients with chronic heart failure. But before you rush off to the pharmacy or use the Internet to order hawthorn products, please bear in mind the following facts:
• Chronic heart failure is an extremely serious medical condition that requires careful diagnosis, ongoing monitoring and complex medical therapy
• Most of the people in the 14 medical studies were receiving hawthorn in addition to other prescription medications
• While heart failure can come on from “out of the blue,” it is most often associated with other chronic medical conditions […]

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