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Richard R. Heuser, M.D., Edits Fifth Medical Textbook on Mitral Valve Disease
Proceeds are being donated to local charitable organizations
PHOENIX, Ariz. (August 2, 2011) – Richard Heuser, M.D., chief of cardiology at St. Luke’s Medical Center, has completed edits to his fifth medical textbook, Mitral Valve Disease: Diagnosis, Treatment and Future Therapy, with Nova Science Publishers, Inc. The textbook, scheduled for release in early 2012, discusses the diagnosis and treatment of mitral valve leakage. This type of leakage occurs in approximately 20 percent of patients after heart attacks and is frequently presented in patients with congestive heart failure.
Dr. Heuser has been credited with being the first cardiologist to treat mitral valve leakage in the early 1980s using a catheter technique. He is also the medical director of a company that is researching a way to treat mitral valve disease leakage with radiofrequency energy, to non-surgically treat this common cardiovascular problem.
Dr. Heuser will be donating all his royalties on sales from the textbook to charity. One-half of the sales will go to the American Heart Association, Arizona Chapter and to the Osler Fund at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, where Dr. Heuser received his training and is a previous faculty member. He has donated the proceeds from his previous textbooks to the same charities in the past.
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