Aortic valve replacement

Different Effect of Mitral Valve Prolapse History of the Disease One of the most common cardiac abnormalities in the United States is Mitral Valve Prolapse, also known as MVP, which affects about 2-6% of Americans. It is a disorder of the bicuspid valve, which causes backflow of blood from the left ventricle back into the left atrium (Sims & Miracle, 2007). MVP can also be identified as click-murmur syndrome, floppy mitral valve, and Barlow syndrome (Kornusky & Cabrera, 2014). In past studies,…

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A stenotic valve is a valve that has been narrowed due to excessive calcium. This can cause chest pain, chest tightness, heart palpitations, fatigue and shortness of breath.4 There are generally two types of valvuloplasty: Aortic valvuloplasty, and mitral valvuloplasty.4 These two procedures differ based on the type of valve that is being widened. For example, aortic valvuloplasty treats the narrowing of the aortic valve, or in other words the valve that is located between the left…

approach has beenevolving and is changing the face of medicine. Transcatheter Valve Replacement (TVR), is apercutaneous technique that uses fluoroscopic guidance to replace a diseased or dysfunctionalvalve without ever having to go under the knife. To be able to intervene percutaneously is the“most exciting advancement in the treatment of valve disease” (Kenny & Hijazi, 2013, p795).The pulmonary valve and aortic valve are two valves that can be treated or replaced in thecatheterization lab…

abnormal backflow of blood leads to pathologic changes in the heart in order to compensate for the decreased successful cardiac output . Aortic regurgitation occurs from either damage to the aortic valve leaflets or dilation of the aortic annulus (Otto, 2014). Symptoms are generally radical and usually exacerbated by a racing heart palpitations,…