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Leaky Heart Valve – When The Mitral Valve Fails

June 1, 2014 by Dr. Mustafa Ahmed 12 Comments

Leaky Mitral Valve

A leaky heart valve, when the mitral valve is the valve involved is known as mitral regurgitation. The most common cause of this leaky heart valve is mitral valve prolapse and it is the most common valve related disease in the US. Other causes include an enlarged heart and coronary artery disease. See some of […]

Filed Under: Heart Valves Tagged With: Cardiovascular disease, Dyspnea, Echocardiography, flail leaflet, heart disease, Heart failure, heart surgery, leaky heart valve, Mitral regurgitation, Mitral valve, Mitral Valve Prolapse (MVP)

Did That Stent Save My Life?

November 27, 2013 by Dr. Mustafa Ahmed 94 Comments

Pretty much everyone knows someone who has had a stent placed in his or her heart. The story told by the patient with the stents is classic. The chest pains had been coming and going for a while, but they had been passed off as indigestion or muscle pain. Tests were done, and showed that […]

Filed Under: Coronary Artery Disease Tagged With: Angina, Angina pectoris, Chest pain, Coronary Artery Disease (CAD), Heart Attack (Myocardial Infarction), heart blockage, heart surgery

Aortic stenosis – What Is It?

June 13, 2013 by Dr. Julian Booker 6 Comments

  By Julian Booker MD Our body’s primary artery, the aorta, supplies blood to the entire body. The aortic valve allows blood to flow from the heart into the aorta but prevents blood from leaking back into the heart.  In aortic stenosis, sometimes called aortic valve stenosis, the aortic valve does not open normally. This […]

Filed Under: Heart Disease, Heart Valves Tagged With: Angina, Angina pectoris, Anginal Equivalent, Aortic valve, Aortic valve stenosis, Echocardiography, heart disease, Heart failure, heart surgery, heart valve

Mitral Valve Prolapse – Part 3 – The Dreaded ‘Flail leaflet’

May 5, 2013 by Dr. Mustafa Ahmed 12 Comments

 Think of the mitral valve in mitral valve prolapse as a parachute. The canopy of the parachute is rounded, like a mitral valve prolapse valve (where as in a normal valve it would be a flat top). The strings that connect the canopy to the person are like the ‘chordae’ that attach the valve to […]

Filed Under: Heart Valves Tagged With: flail leaflet, heart disease, heart surgery, leaky heart valve, leaky mitral valve, Mitral regurgitation, Mitral valve, Mitral Valve Prolapse (MVP), mitral valve repair

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