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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Heart valve surgery"”.
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An educational programme for nurses to facilitate cardiac rehabilitation of patients who had heart valve repair or replacement surgery in Namibia
Heart valve disease is a critical global public health issue, contributing to cardiovascular morbidity and mortality worldwide. It serves as an indication for heart valve repair and replacement surgeries, which are invasive procedures that can potentially compromise patients’ quality of life. …
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The Economic Impact of Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD) on the Health System of South Africa. A Cost of Illness Study.
Background Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD) is a disease of poverty that is neglected in developing countries. The consequences of RHD are increasingly becoming huge economic burden to the health system and consecutively the government. Despite RHD being preventable, most of the RHD related deaths …
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The Impact of Pomegranate on Memory Dysfunction after Cardiac Surgery
… abilities in individuals diagnosed with heart disease of any type or etiology. This decline is observed as the disease progresses (Muller, Grobbee, Aleman, Bots & van der Schouw, 2006; Ernest et al., 2006), as well as after certain interventions, such as coronary artery bypass grafting …
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A novel trans-catheter heart valve system for low- to middle-income countries: need assessment, surgical feasibility and preclinical translation
… outside the industrialized world. Rheumatic Heart Disease is typically a disease of poverty, leading to different levels of destruction of patients' heart valves in an estimated 33 million patients of low- to middle income countries globally. Heart valve surgery is often the only life-saving …