The medication that is used for mitral valve stenosis includes Antiarrhythmics, Calcium channel blockers, Anticoagulants, Beta-adrenergic blockers, Antibiotics, Diuretics.
Mitral valve stenosis is a disability when it prevents you from working.
However mitral valve stenosis does not automatically qualify you for disability but it can if you can demonstrate functional limitation in addition to an objective diagnosis of severity.
Mitral valve stenosis is hereditary as it can run in families.
Mitral stenosis causes shortness of breath because the valve cannot open enough and results in less blood flow through the body.
With mitral stenosis your upper heart chamber swells as pressure builds up and then the blood and fluid can collect in your lung tissue and make it hard to breathe.
Anything that can put stress on your body such as mental stress, physical stress, pregnancy, infections etc can all worsen mitral stenosis.
Mitral stenosis can also appear or become worse when your heart rate increases like during exercise or other physical activity.
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.