Mayo Clinic: Opioid Epidemic Leads to More, Younger People Having Heart Valve Operations
October 30, 2020
October 30, 2020
ROCHESTER, Minnesota, Oct. 30 -- Mayo Clinic issued the following news release:
The opioid epidemic in the U.S. is becoming a bigger problem medically, socially and financially, and the COVID-19 pandemic has made it worse, according to the Food and Drug Administration.
Heart surgeons have seen a disturbing trend over the past decade: more and younger patients with infective endocarditis requiring heart surgery. Infective endocarditis is an infection caused by bacteria t . . .
The opioid epidemic in the U.S. is becoming a bigger problem medically, socially and financially, and the COVID-19 pandemic has made it worse, according to the Food and Drug Administration.
Heart surgeons have seen a disturbing trend over the past decade: more and younger patients with infective endocarditis requiring heart surgery. Infective endocarditis is an infection caused by bacteria t . . .