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Mitral Valve Regurgitation (Mitral Insufficiency)

November 30, 2014 17146 1
Dr. Mustafa Ahmed

Mitral Valve regurgitation mitral insufficiency

By Mustafa Ahmed MD What is Mitral Valve Regurgitation (Mitral Insufficiency)? Mitral Valve Regurgitation also known as Mitral Insufficiency is basically a leaky mitral valve. As a doctor that specializes in heart valve disease, this is the most common valve problem I see. The mitral valve stops blood flowing backwards from the main chamber of…

Filed Under: Heart Valves Tagged With: Cardiovascular disease, heart disease, Heart failure, heart valve, leaky heart valve, leaky mitral valve, Mitral Valve Prolapse (MVP)

Can Medicines Help My Mitral Valve?

July 27, 2013 13866 0
Dr. Mustafa Ahmed

The mitral valve is there to stop blood flowing backwards in the left side of the heart, and so allows blood to travel the correct way, forward, to supply the body! Most of my posts to far have been about mitral valve prolapse (MVP). In mitral valve prolapse the degenerated valve may lead to leakiness,…

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

Mitral Valve Prolapse – Part 6 – Getting To The Bottom Of It

June 15, 2013 6392 2
Dr. Mustafa Ahmed

By Mustafa Ahmed MD MVP - Controversy and Frustration There are very few conditions that have drawn as much controversy and as much frustration for patients and physicians over the years as mitral valve prolapse. On one hand, if anyone with MVP asks a physician what the significance of their mitral valve prolapse is, they…

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

Mitral Valve Prolapse – Part 5 – How Common is it?

May 25, 2013 8522 0
Dr. Mustafa Ahmed

Before reading this, if you haven’t read the first few posts, go ahead and read them so you have a good understanding of what mitral valve prolapse is, and how the valve is affected. Mitral valve prolapse has had several names over the years, including floppy valve syndrome, click syndrome, and click murmur syndrome.  Up…

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

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

May 5, 2013 42487 2
Dr. Mustafa Ahmed

 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

Mitral Valve Prolapse – Part 2 – The Valve

May 1, 2013 15437 1
Dr. Mustafa Ahmed

By Mustafa Ahmed MD So now you understand the basics of mitral valve prolapse.  When initially described as a relatively common cause of mitral valve disease in the 1950’s, mitral valve prolapse (MVP) was known as ‘floppy valve syndrome.’ The underlying process making the valve floppy is technically termed ‘myxomatous degeneration,’ which literally means jelly-like…

Filed Under: Heart Valves Tagged With: heart valve, heart valve disease, leaky heart valve, leaky mitral valve, Mitral regurgitation, Mitral valve, Mitral Valve Prolapse (MVP), Myxomatous degeneration

Mitral Valve Prolapse – Part 1 – The Basics

April 26, 2013 20609 2
Dr. Mustafa Ahmed

What is the Mitral Valve ? Blood flow through the left side of the heart is simple. It goes from the top chamber of the heart, to the bottom chamber of the heart then out to the body. The mitral valve is the valve between the top and bottom chambers that is simply there to…

Filed Under: Heart Valves Tagged With: heart disease, heart valve, leaky heart valve, leaky mitral valve, Mitral regurgitation, Mitral valve, Mitral Valve Prolapse (MVP), Myxomatous degeneration

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