Mitral Valve Replacement at Maryland Heart Center

If you or your family have a heart disease, you have to pay more attention and check up to the doctors very early. Because heart disease in some cases can caused death. There are more than one case of heart disease, such as mitral valve. The mitral valve is the “inflow valve ” for the main pumping chamber of the heart, the left ventricle. When the heart squeezes, the two leftlets of the mitral valve snap shut and prevent blood from backing up to the lungs. Blood is directed out of the heart to the rest of the body through aortic valve.

If there is a problem during the circulation, you must be feel uncomfortable because your heart function is not work according to the plan. At the Maryland Heart Center, they will help you to solve the problem, because they are the specialist in the surgical treatment of valvular disease; including mitral valve repair and mitral valve surgery.

Mitral valve repair is used to treat regurgitation (leakage) or stenosis (narrowing) of the mitral valve. Traditionally, this is a mitral valve replacement. They have threated mitral valve disease by removing the diseased valve and implanting an artificial valve. For any information about mitral valve surgery further, you can check umm.edu.

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