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Home / Archives for Mitral regurgitation

Mitral Clip: Everything You Ever Needed to Know with Dr. Mustafa Ahmed

September 24, 2020 by Dr. Mustafa Ahmed 1 Comment

When a patient has mitral regurgitation but is not a candidate for open-heart surgery, what is a doctor to do? Thankfully, with the groundbreaking MitraClip (or mitral clip), these patients can still be treated through specialized techniques. Dr. Mustafa Ahmed discusses the procedure’s history, benefits, and more with Dr. Alain Bouchard in our latest podcast. […]

Filed Under: Heart Valves, Podcast Tagged With: Mitral regurgitation, Mitral valve

Mitral Regurgitation

September 21, 2020 by Dr. Mustafa Ahmed 2 Comments

What is Mitral Regurgitation

Join Drs. Mustafa Ahmed and Alain Bouchard as they discuss Mitral Regurgitation — also known as ‘the leaky valve.’ Subscribe to the MyHeart.net Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Google Podcasts. Please comment below if you would like us to include a transcript of this episode! 4.86/5 (14) Tell Us How We're Doing… Was This Article Helpful?

Filed Under: Heart Valves, Podcast Tagged With: Mitral regurgitation

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)

Echocardiography – Part 1 – What is an echocardiogram

August 12, 2013 by Dr. Julian Booker 18 Comments

An echocardiogram or echo for short, is a powerful tool used primarily by cardiologists to evaluate the heart’s structure and function. An echocardiogram is a type of sonogram which means that it uses sound waves to take pictures of your heart and related structures. The system is very similar to sonar on a submarine. The […]

Filed Under: Tests & Investigations Tagged With: aortic stenosis, Atrial septal defect, congenital heart disease, Echocardiography, heart disease, Heart failure, Mitral regurgitation, Mitral Valve Prolapse (MVP), PFO

Can Medicines Help My Mitral Valve?

July 27, 2013 by Dr. Mustafa Ahmed 3 Comments

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 by Dr. Mustafa Ahmed 4 Comments

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 by Dr. Mustafa Ahmed 8 Comments

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 4 – Mitral Regurgitation

May 12, 2013 by Dr. Mustafa Ahmed 9 Comments

By Mustafa Ahmed MD So far we have discussed what mitral valve prolapse is, and what causes it. If you have not read the previous sections yet, then I suggest you go read those first to have a basic understanding of the mitral valve. Now we will discuss one of the complications of mitral valve […]

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

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

Mitral Valve Prolapse – Part 2 – The Valve

May 1, 2013 by Dr. Mustafa Ahmed 9 Comments

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

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