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| | Mitral valve prolapse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Mitral valve prolapse can be treated with surgical replacement of the mitral valve. | | | Severe mitral valve prolapse is associated with arrhythmias and atrial fibrillation that may progress and lead to sudden death. | | | Between 11 and 15 percent of patients experience moderate chest pain and shortness of breath. |
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| | Conscious Choice: Mitral Valve Prolapse |
| | Mitral valve is one of the valves of the heart, whose function is to keep the blood flowing in one direction through the left side of the heart, and to prevent backflow of blood when the heart contracts. | | | Caffeine and theobromides in chocolate are related to medications used to treat asthma, which work by inhibiting the absorption of catecholamines.) People with mitral valve prolapse are especially sensitive to all kinds of drugs and medications. | | | Magnesium deficiencies are associated with migraine headaches, and are common in people with epilepsy and mitral valve prolapse. |
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| | Mitral valve stenosis |
| | Mitral valve stenosis — or mitral stenosis — is a condition in which the heart's mitral valve is narrowed. | | | Mitral regurgitation is a condition in which the mitral valve doesn't close tightly. | | | For example, some infants are born with a mitral valve in which the leaflets of the valve are fused together. |
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| | Mitral Valve Prolapse - Texas Heart Institute Heart Information Center |
| | Mitral valve prolapse (MVP) is among the most common heart conditions, but it remains something of a puzzle. | | | Mitral regurgitation can usually be treated with medicines, but some people need surgery to repair or replace the defective valve. | | | Most of the time, MVP is not a serious condition, even though some patients report palpitations or sharp chest pains. |
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| | MITRAL VALVE REPAIR (text) |
| | Mitral valve repair is an open heart procedure performed by cardiothoracic surgeons to treat stenosis (narrowing) or regurgitation (leakage) of the mitral valve. | | | Most often today, rheumatic mitral stenosis is treated by balloon valvuloplasty, a procedure performed in the cardiac catheterization laboratory by interventional cardiologists. | | | After successful mitral valve replacement you can expect to return to your preoperative condition or better. |
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| | Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine: Mitral valve stenosis |
| | Once the catheter is positioned in the valve, the balloon is inflated, separating the fused areas. | | | Procedures available to treat mitral valve stenosis, whether medical or surgical, all produce effective results. | | | If drug therapy does not produce satisfactory results, valve repair or replacement may be necessary. |
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| | Heart Valve Ring Reverses Damage From Congestive Heart Failure, Easing Symptoms |
| | That study was the first to show in a multi-center trial that mitral valve surgery can be performed safely even in patients with advanced heart failure, and that it results in very low rates of death up to two years after surgery. | | | Bolling notes that many surgeons are now repairing the mitral valves of heart failure patients, to help reduce the regurgitation of blood back into the lungs. | | | Failure to adequately reverse the onset of this condition, known as mitral valve regurgitation, can further lead to even greater mitral valve regurgitation and an increased likelihood of heart failure, according to a 1998 study published by Bolling and his colleagues in the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. |
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| | The metal valve tends to form blood clots, so patients must take a blood thinning medication for the rest of their lives, with the risk of bleeding. | | | But Dr. Gammie says with a mitral valve repair, the chance of survival is about 98 percent. | | | “In traditional mitral valve repair, the actual view of the surgery is hard to see for anyone but the surgeon,” says Dr. Gammie. |
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| | The Physician and Sportsmedicine: Mitral Valve Prolapse |
| | A recent study (8) shows that compared with a control group, patients with exercise-induced mitral regurgitation are more likely to develop congestive heart failure, syncope, and progressive mitral regurgitation leading to valve replacement. | | | Most patients who have mitral valve prolapse (MVP) will have a benign form with no significant complications (1). | | | A family physician should seek cardiology consultation for anyone who has mitral valve disease with mitral regurgitation, significant arrhythmias, or a family history of sudden death due to MVP. |
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| | Magnesium |
| | If you put the study results together, then there's a link between anxiety and hypermobility, a link between anxiety and mitral valve prolapse, and a link between mitral valve prolapse and hypermobility. | | | mitral valve prolapse, migraines, attention deficit disorder, fibromyalgia, asthma and allergies | | | Covers the links between magnesium deficiency and diverse conditions such as fibromyalgia, hearing loss, migraines, mitral valve prolapse, muscle cramps, nystagmus, osteoporosis, pectus excavatum, TMJ and more. |
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| | Mitral valve regurgitation - MayoClinic.com |
| | When the mitral valve doesn't function properly, blood can't move through your heart or to the rest of your body as efficiently. | | | As many as one in five people over age 55 have some degree of mitral valve regurgitation. | | | You may need heart surgery to repair or replace the valve. |
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| | Heart Info - Mitral Valve Prolapse: A Patient Guide |
| | MVP is a condition of the mitral valve, a two-flapped heart valve between the left atrium and left ventricle. | | | If a patient is found to have regurgitation problems, surgery is recommended and performed at as young an age as possible, reducing the risk of further damage to the heart. | | | Although most MVP patients do very well with the treatments and preventive measures outlined above, there is sometimes need for heart surgery to either repair or replace the mitral valve. |
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| | Understanding Mitral Valve Prolapse Syndrome Page |
| | When MVP is a consequence of other conditions, it is known as secondary mitral valve prolapse. | | | Some physicians believed the problem was not the heart, but one of a psychiatric nature. | | | The exact cause of these structural changes is theoretical and not clearly understood. |
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| | eMedicine - Mitral Valve Prolapse : Article by Poothirikovil Venugopalan, MBBS, MD, FRCP (Glasg.), FRCPCH |
| | Multiple views of the mitral valve annulus are essential, and the echo-Doppler findings have to be correlated with clinical data. | | | Squatting, however, may also be associated with an increase in peripheral vascular resistance, which in turn increases the tension on the mitral valve apparatus, directing blood flow preferentially into the left atrium, rather than to the peripheral circulation. | | | Mitral regurgitation (MR) occurs in some patients with MVP, particularly with more significant prolapse when the valve edges fail to coapt. |
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| | Mitral Valve Prolapse: What You Should Know -- familydoctor.org |
| | Remind your dentists and doctors that you have mitral valve prolapse so that you can get a prescription for antibiotics before you have surgery or dental work. | | | Your doctor can find mitral valve prolapse during a regular exam. | | | familydoctor.org Home > Conditions A to Z > Heart Disease and Stroke > Mitral Valve Prolapse |
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| | MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Mitral valve prolapse |
| | When symptomatic, it is controllable with medications and may be improved with surgery. | | | Mitral valve prolapse and associated regurgitation may show on: | | | This condition itself may not be preventable, but some complications are. |
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| | PRESS RELEASE Reminder - OR-Live.com Presents: Live Heart Surgical Broadcast of a Robotic Assisted Mitral Valve Repair |
| | The da Vinci Surgical System, developed and produced by Intuitive Surgical (NASDAQ: ISRG), was approved by the Food and Drug Administration for its first cardiac use (mitral valve repair) in November 2002. | | | Chitwood pointed out that the majority of patients have excellent post-surgery recuperation results after minimally invasive, robotically assisted mitral valve surgery. | | | Chitwood and his surgical team performed the first total heart valve surgery using robotic technology in North America in May 2000. |
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| | Mitral valve - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This early filling phase is due to active relaxation of the ventricular myocardium, causing a pressure gradient that allows a rapid flow of blood from the left atrium, across the mitral valve. | | | The subvalvular aparatus, which lies completely in the LV, is made up of the papillary muscles and the chordae tendineae. | | | The anteromedial papillary muscle and the posteromedial papillary muscle each attach to the walls of the LV. |
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| | Mitral Valve Disease Text |
| | bileaflet valves have been found to be relatively free of chronic hemolysis | | | endocarditis and acute ischemic mitral regurgitation are clear indications | | | when triscupid valve procedures must be completed then a transseptal approach can be utilized |
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| | Mitral Valve Surgery |
| | Since 1996, we have been performing mitral valve surgery using new videoscopic and robotic techniques. | | | In addition, we are using the latest surgical technique for treating atrial fibrillation. | | | We perform traditional and minimally invasive coronary bypass and mitral valve repair surgery. |
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| | MedlinePlus: Heart Valve Diseases |
| | The primary NIH organization for research on Heart Valve Diseases is the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute | | | Aortic Valve Calcification (Aortic Valve Sclerosis) (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research) | | | ClinicalTrials.gov: Aortic Valve Stenosis (National Institutes of Health) |
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| | Valve prolapse - Mitral Valve Prolapse |
| | Navarro said mitral valve prolapse was confirmed in 76 percent of the women. | | | As a result of MVP, Mitral valve prolapse is the most common cardiac problem and may affect five to twenty | | | Mitral valve prolapse (MVP) is a common condition in which the mitral valve between the left upper chamber |
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| | What is Mitral Valve Prolapse? |
| | Mitral valve prolapse is the most common cardiac problem and may affect five to twenty percent of the population. | | | MVP tends to run in families, so those with blood relatives with MVP have a greater chance of also having the condition. | | | The condition is most common in women, although men are also affected. |
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| | Mitral Valve Prolapse: Can Diet Changes Help? |
| | There are many conditions such as breast cancer, heart attacks and osteoporosis that are even more common than mitral valve prolapse, but that doesn't mean that any of these conditions are normal, let alone desirable. | | | Conditions linked to MVP include magnesium deficiencies, increased catecholamine productions, anxiety, depression, migraines, allergies and asthma. | | | Mitral valve prolapse is a common condition occurring in approximately 4 - 18% of the population. |
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| | HeartPoint: Mitral Valve Prolapse |
| | Mitral valve prolapse (MVP) is a common condition, occurring in up to 20% of the population. | | | Stretching of the connective tissue of which the valve is made of allows the valve to stretch or bow slightly into the left atrium (the medical term for this is "prolapse"). | | | The "mitral valve" is a structure in the heart which is between the upper chamber on the left side of the heart (the "left atrium") and the lower chamber on the left (the "left ventricle"). |
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| | Mitral Valve Prolapse Education and Support |
| | I found out in 1995 that I might have Mitral Valve Prolapse and this led me to further investigation of this disease. | | | I would like to share what I have learned about MVP. | | | My name is Paula and I am 47 years old. |
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| | Mitral Valve and Mitral Valve Prolapse |
| | Does mitral valve prolapse need to be treated? | | | Most people with mitral valve prolapse don't have symptoms, won't have problems and won't need treatment. | | | Mitral valve prolapse is also known as click-murmur syndrome, Barlow's syndrome, balloon mitral valve and floppy valve syndrome. |
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| | Heart Valves |
| | Only a doctor familiar with a patient's condition can determine whether that person needs antibiotics. | | | People with congenital heart valve defects may need treatment with drugs. | | | A valve also may not be able to close completely. |
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| | Mitral Valve Prolapse |
| | MVPS - Sure, it can make you miserable. | | | Often no symptoms are present and the condition may be discovered on a routine examination. | | | Mitral valve prolapse causes a characteristic heart murmur that may be heard through a stethoscope. |
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| | Our bodies have a complex task of maintaining a stable internal environment and respond appropriately to changes that take place in the external surroundings. | | | Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS), Neurocardiogenic Syncope, Mitral Valve Prolapse Dysautonomia, Pure Autonomic Failure, Multiple System Atrophy (Shy-Drager Syndrome) are some of the many disorders that involve a dysfunction of the autonomic nervous system, or Dysautonomia. | | | Be sure to visit the NDRF Reference Page where you can learn more about the NDRF Patient Handbook, Videos and other reference materials. |
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| | Mitral Valve Regurgitation -- Overview |
| | Mild cases of mitral valve regurgitation cause few problems, but more severe cases eventually weaken the heart and lead to heart failure. | | | The mitral valve is similar to a one-way gate in the left side of your heart. | | | Normally, the valve only allows blood to flow from the upper to lower heart chamber. |
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