WOMEN AND HEART DISEASE
The heart has four chambers. Each chamber fills with blood and empties the blood into another chamber or a large blood vessel. Each of the four chambers has a heart valve which opens and closes when the blood fills or is expelled from the chamber. Unfortunately, either by an accident of birth or certain disease and degenerative conditions, the leaflets of these valves can be damaged, malformed or scarred leading to inability of the valve to open (stenosis) or to close correctly,(insufficiency or regurgitation, the leaky valve).
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Aortic Stenosis
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Aortic Regurgitation
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Mitral Stenosis
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Mitral Regurgitation
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Tricuspid Valve Disease
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Pulmonic Valve Disease
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Mitral Valve Prolapse