COVID can cause mitral valve stenosis as people who have had COVID-19 had mitral valve regurgitation that was caused by COVID-19 induced myocardial injury4.
Stress can cause and trigger mitral stenosis although the main risk factor of mitral stenosis is a history of rheumatic fever but even pregnancy and other conditions such as cardiac disorders, endocarditis and respiratory infection can cause mitral stenosis.
The organs that are affected by mitral stenosis is the heart and the valve between the two left heart chambers.
Mitral stenosis is narrowing of the valve that is between the two left heart chambers and when narrowed the valve reduces or even blocks blood flow into your heart's main pumping chamber.
And the heart's main pumping chamber is the lower left heart chamber that is also called the left ventricle.
Mitral stenosis causes chest by through high blood pressure being in the lung arteries.
The medical term for high blood pressure in the lung arteries is pulmonary hypertension which can occur if a narrowed mitral valve slows or blocks blood flow.
Decreased blood flow raises pressure in the lung arteries.
The heart must work harder to pump blood through the lungs.
Many people with mitral valve prolapse DO NOT have symptoms.
A group of symptoms sometimes found in people with mitral valve prolapse has been called "mitral valve prolapse syndrome," and includes: Chest pain (not caused by coronary artery disease or a heart attack) Dizziness.