Failure of the mitral valve

[[TK] George]

Failure of the mitral valve - how much or as far as eto it is dangerous

[VOLKON]

Hello!

All depends on very many factors. First of all, what parentage of this mitral failure. It can be consequence or investigation of a rheumatic heart disease, prolapsa (saggings of cusps) the mitral valve, dysfunction papilljarnyh muscles, etc. Besides are different degrees of a mitral failure - hemodynamically significant and little significant or insignificant. Well and, at last, prescription of disease. If a mitral failure old heart has time to adapt. And at development of an acute mitral failure (for example, at an infarct with capture papilljarnyh) consequences are much worse than muscles.