(1/11) #ValveDiseaseDay #Tweetorial: Today is Heart Valve Disease Awareness Day and we’re sharing facts about heart valve disease. Follow along to learn more about what can occur when heart valves are diseased or damaged. @Lross246 @mirvatalasnag
@Lross246 @mirvatalasnag (2/11) #ValveDiseaseDay #Tweetorial: Facts about heart valve disease: affects >11 million Americans; 1/10 patients >75 y/o have moderate to severe heart valve disease; & 25k people in the U.S. die from heart valve disease annually. bit.ly/3bWaURr 
@Lross246 @mirvatalasnag (3/11) #ValveDiseaseDay #Tweetorial: There are many barriers to treatment, some of the top contributors include access to SHD clinics, referral bias, socioeconomic issues & symptom recognition. #cvVHD
@Lross246 @mirvatalasnag (4/11) #ValveDiseaseDay #Tweetorial: There are disparities in treatment for #vhdAS in the minority populations, organized into these 3 categories: patient-related factors, health care/system factors, disease-related factors. bit.ly/32bULRN @JACCJournals
@Lross246 @mirvatalasnag @JACCJournals (5/11) #ValveDiseaseDay #Tweetorial: Ways to address #vhdAS disparities: Implement #cvQI programs & measure outcomes; provide effective culturally competent material & team-based care to deliver message; improve patient health care access, education & effective diagnosis; & more.
@Lross246 @mirvatalasnag @JACCJournals (6/11) #ValveDiseaseDay The NCD for #TAVR includes 3 basic rules for centers to get paid for performing TAVR: 1) approved device for approved indication; 2) must belong to a nat’l registry; 3) patient must be evaluated by an intvnl cardiologist & CV surgeon experienced in TAVR.
@Lross246 @mirvatalasnag @JACCJournals (7/11) #ValveDiseaseDay #Tweetorial: Patients w/ severe symptomatic #vhdAS who don’t undergo aortic valve replacement have survival rates as low as 50% at 2 yrs & 20% at 5 yrs after onset of symptoms. It has a worse prognosis than many metastatic cancers.
@Lross246 @mirvatalasnag @JACCJournals @ClevelandClinic @EdwardsLifesci (8/11) #ValveDiseaseDay #Tweetorial: Patients diagnosed with severe #vhdMR who don’t undergo treatment have mortality rates of 20% at 1 yr & 50% at 5 yrs.
@Lross246 @mirvatalasnag @JACCJournals @ClevelandClinic @EdwardsLifesci (9/11) #ValveDiseaseDay #Tweetorial: Only 1 in 40 patients with moderate to severe #vhdMR undergo surgical treatment.
@Lross246 @mirvatalasnag @JACCJournals @ClevelandClinic @EdwardsLifesci (10/11) #ValveDiseaseDay #Tweetorial: These images represent, in order: 1) Repair of the Tricuspid Valve with a C-Ring on CT; 2) Unicuspid Aortic Valve on 2D echo; 3) Double orifice Mitral Valve on 2 and 3D echo; 4) Bioprosthetic aortic valve with HALT on CTA
@Lross246 @mirvatalasnag @JACCJournals @ClevelandClinic @EdwardsLifesci (11/11) #ValveDiseaseDay #Tweetorial: Thanks for tuning in to our Heart Valve Disease Awareness Day Tweetorial. For more information, explore the Valvular Heart Disease clinical topic collection, featuring 6 new expert analyses on all things HVD. bit.ly/2VhF9N7
