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Preventing Heart Disease - Infographic
Now is the right time to start paying attention to your heart health. You can lower your risk for heart attack and stroke by knowing the risk factors that affect your heart.
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Here at Stanford, we use a multi-disciplinary approach to diagnosing and treating patients with valvular heart disease. We aim to repair, rather than replace heart valves whenever possible.
Diseases of the mitral or aortic valves (the valves of the left side of the heart) are most common affecting more than 5 percent of the population. Valvular heart disease implies that a valve either fails to open properly (stenosis) or fails to close properly allowing backward flow of blood (regurgitation).
Any disease involving one or more of the valves of the heart. Valvular heart disease may be inherited or acquired.
A congenital birth defect characterized by an aortic valve that only has two flaps instead of three; if the valve becomes narrowed, it is more difficult for the blood to flow through, and often the blood leaks backward.
Narrowing of the mitral valve opening, increasing resistance to blood flow from the left atrium to the left ventricle of the heart.
A condition in which one or both of the mitral valve flaps bulges during the contraction of the heart and may not close properly, allowing the blood to leak backward.
Now is the right time to start paying attention to your heart health. You can lower your risk for heart attack and stroke by knowing the risk factors that affect your heart.
For the fifth time in a row, Stanford Hospital receives recognition from the American Heart Association and the Mitral Foundation for excellence in mitral valve repair.
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