How could heart valve disease be treated?

Depends On Condition: Depending on your heart valve disease condition, the following could be treatments for you: monitoring, medications, balloon valvotomy and/or surgery. Of course all treatments should have regular follow-ups with your doctor.

Many ways: It really depends on the severity of the valve disase and which valve is involved. This can range from medical treatment to surgery. With surgery the valve could potentially be repaired or replaced. In a subset of patients this can be approached thru mini insicions. With a small group of very high risk patients the aortic valve can be treated with a new type of valve stent called tavi or tavr.

Several ways: Some need only medical management, while others need repair or replacement. Traditional valve surgery has been a open procedure (true open heart surgery) but now we have per cutaneous means for treating some. This allows the treatment of many more patients. Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (tavr) has proven especially good in high risk patients. Talk to your surgeon and cardiologist !