Answer FAQs About Anticoagulants for Valvular Heart Disease

August 2017

We're getting questions about managing anticoagulation in patients with valvular heart disease...due to recent Am Heart Assn guidelines.

These are patients with a stiff or leaky valve, such as valve stenosis...or who've had their valve replaced.

Who needs anticoagulation? Continue to recommend an anticoagulant for most patients with a prosthetic heart valve.

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