If heart valve disease in the elderly cannot be treated surgically, it can be treated with drugs such as furosemide and digoxin as prescribed by the doctor, and interventional therapy can be carried out if necessary.
1. Drug therapy: diuretics, digoxin and other drugs are taken for the treatment of various symptoms of heart valve disease in the elderly.
(1) Diuretics: Diuretics such as furosemide should be used in cases of heart failure with sodium and water retention.
(2) Digoxin: Digoxin should be applied to those who have rapid atrial fibrillation, and it is forbidden to use it in patients with ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation, and some of the patients have arrhythmia, nausea, vomiting and other symptoms after using the drug.
2. Interventional therapy: such as balloon dilatation of stenotic valves, if the valve calcification is not obvious can be used in this way to expand the area of the valve, improve the symptoms; in addition, it also includes percutaneous aortic valve replacement for the treatment of aortic valve stenosis, percutaneous mitral valvuloplasty for the treatment of mitral valve closure insufficiency, and so on.
If you have heart valve disease, it is important to seek medical attention in a timely manner and standardize treatment under the guidance of a doctor.