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Mitral Valve Disease Learning Center
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Endocarditis -- valve infection; Severe leaky mitral valve (regurgitation) Stroke; Clots to other areas; Irregular heartbeat (arrhythmias), including atrial fibrillation;
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The diagnostic, medical and surgical procedures available to the person with mitral valve insufficiency are all likely to produce good results.
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Procedures available to treat mitral valve stenosis, whether medical or surgical, all produce effective results.
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MVP is usually not a serious condition. However, dangerous, untreated irregular heartbeats may rarely cause sudden death. These persons should be carefully monitored.
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Heart failure, also called congestive heart failure, is a condition in which the heart can no longer pump enough blood to the rest of the body.
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"Heart failure" is a broad term—often used inter-changeably with "congestive heart failure" (CHF)—to describe the heart's inability to consistently pump enough blood to the body's organs and tissues. Heart failure occurs either from a structural o...
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Heart failure is a condition in which the heart has lost the ability to pump enough blood to the body's tissues. With too little blood being delivered, the organs and other tissues do not receive enough oxygen and nutrients to function properly.
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Pulmonary edema is an abnormal build up of fluid in the air sacs of the lungs, which leads to shortness of breath
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Pulmonary edema is a condition in which fluid accumulates in the lungs, usually because the heart's left ventricle does not pump adequately.
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