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Articles, prevention tips and explanations on interventions, to address your heart health in confidence.
Rheumatic heart disease: when a poorly treated sore throat damages the valves, and how to stop it
An untreated strep throat leads, three to six times out of a hundred, to an attack of acute rheumatic fever, and that attack can permanently damage a heart valve. It is the leading cause of valve surgery in Morocco, it mainly affects young women, and it is stopped by an injection every three weeks.
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Severe aortic stenosis: symptoms, life expectancy and when to operate
Narrowing of the aortic valve progresses silently for years, then everything changes once the first symptoms appear. Understanding that turning point is understanding why the timing of the operation counts as much as the operation itself.
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Aortic aneurysm: understanding a silent disease, and getting screened for it in Tangier
An aortic aneurysm often develops without a single sign, until it becomes dangerous. Understanding what causes it, how it is screened for and how it is treated is what lets you act in time, and calmly.
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