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Category Archives: Mitral Valve Prolapse
The 35-45 Year-Old Health Check – (Part 1) – Why is it so important?
By Murtaza Ahmed MD As I mentioned in my previous post, the obesity epidemic, one of the most common presentations of the 35-45 year old patient is for a ‘general health check’. There is something about this age that makes … Continue reading
Posted in Diet & Exercise, Hypertension, Mitral Valve Prolapse, Preventative Medicine
Tagged 35 year old, am i healthy, blood tests, Conditions and Diseases, Coronary artery disease, diabetes, forty year old, health, health check, health mot, high blood pressure, hypertension, mot, Patient, physical exam, Physician, preventative medicine, smoking, Stroke
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Can Medicines Help My Mitral Valve?
By Mustafa I. Ahmed MD Can Medicines Help My Mitral Valve? 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 … Continue reading
Mitral Valve Prolapse – Part 7, Do I need Antibiotics for my Dental Procedure?
By Mustafa I. Ahmed MD The Controversy.. Take Them .. Take Them ..Take Them …. Don’t take them In 2007 the American Heart Association (AHA) released an updated set of guidelines regarding the use of antibiotics to prevent heart valve infection … Continue reading
Mitral Valve Prolapse – Part 6, Alarm, Confusion, Controversy, Frustration and Getting to Where We Need to be
By Mustafa I. 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 … Continue reading
Aortic stenosis?!!
Our body’s primary artery, the aorta, supplies blood to the entire body. The aortic valve allows blood to flow from the heart into the aorta but prevents blood from leaking back into the heart. In aortic stenosis, sometimes called aortic … Continue reading
Posted in Julian Booker myHeart Blog, Mitral Valve Prolapse
Tagged American Heart Association, angina, Angina pectoris, Anginal Equivalent, Aortic valve, Aortic valve stenosis, Cardiac muscle, chf, dizziness, Echocardiography, health, heart disease, Heart failure, heart surgery, heart valve, near syncope, Rheumatic fever, Surgery, syncope, tavi, tavr, United States
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Mitral Valve Prolapse – Part 5, From Fiasco to Sensibility, How Common is it?
By Mustafa I. Ahmed, MD 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 … Continue reading
Mitral Valve Prolapse – Part 4, Introduction to Mitral Regurgitation: The Leaky Mitral Valve
By Mustafa I. 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 … Continue reading
Posted in Mitral Valve Prolapse, MyHeartSpecialist Blog
Tagged Blood, Cardiac muscle, Dyspnea, flail leaflet, health, Leak, leaking mitral valve, leaky heart valve, leaky valve, Mitral regurgitation, Mitral valve, Mitral valve prolapse, mitral valve repair, mitral valve surgery, valvular disease
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Mitral Valve Prolapse – Part 3 – The Dreaded ‘Flail leaflet’
By Mustafa I Ahmed MD What is Flail Leaflet? 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 … Continue reading
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Tagged Cardiovascular Disorders, Conditions and Diseases, flail leaflet, flail mitral leaflet, health, heart disease, heart surgery, leaking heart valve, leaking mitral valve, leaky heart valve, leaky mitral valve, Mitral regurgitation, Mitral valve, Mitral valve prolapse, mitral valve repair, mitral valve surgery, Valvular
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Mitral Valve Prolapse – Part 2, What’s happening to the valve?
By Mustafa I. Ahmed, MD 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 … Continue reading
Mitral Valve Prolapse – Part 1, Lets Start With the Basics
By Mustafa I. Ahmed MD 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 … Continue reading
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