Summary: <p>Guy Lloyd (a consultant cardiologist in Eastbourne) talks to Gerry McCann (a cardiologist in Leicester) and John Chambers (president of the British Heart Valve Society) about aortic valve disease.</p><p>They discuss stratifying cases by risk, myocardial fibrosis, the various assessments available, whether clinicians should be looking more to prescribe ACE inhibitors, and how best valve service should be configured.</p><p>See also:</p><p>Postconditioning and protection from reperfusion injury: where do we stand? http://bit.ly/15EmdIy</p><p>Webcasts from all the sessions at the British Cardiovascular Society Conference 2012 bit.ly/ZMGmUE</p>
