Heart failure - valvular
Description
- Valve disease causes HF by pressure overload (stenotic lesions), volume overload (regurgitant lesions), or both
- 2025 ESC/EACTS guideline shifts decisively toward earlier intervention - before HF symptoms or irreversible LV damage develop, in suitable low-risk patients
- Symptom onset in severe valve disease is itself a marker that ventricular compensation has failed
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