Valvular heart disease arises when the heart’s valves don’t function correctly, impacting the pumping of blood to the body and the intake within the heart’s chambers, as the valves do not open or close properly.
Detecting valvular heart disease can be tricky. It requires doctors listening to a patient’s heartbeat and being able to recognize an unusual sound or pattern, and figure out which valve is impaired and what issue it’s causing. Recognizing whether the sound and pattern of a heartbeat is irregular can be subjective, and that means the condition is frequently misdiagnosed or missed entirely.
See https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/14/us_fda_approves_first_ai/
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