Heart Valve

Disease
Larios García de León Anilú
 What is the heart valve disease?
Heart valve disease occurs if one or more of your heart valves don't work
well. These valves have tissue flaps that open and close with each
heartbeat. The flaps make sure blood flows in the right direction through
your heart's four chambers and to the rest of your body.
 Causes
Heart conditions and other disorders, age-
related changes, rheumatic fever, or
infections can cause acquired heart
valve disease. These factors change the
shape or flexibility of once-normal heart
valves.
The cause of congenital heart valve disease
isn’t known. It occurs before birth as
the heart is forming. Congenital heart
valve disease can occur alone or with
other types of congenital heart defects.
 Valves in our heart

Tricuspid valve Pulmonary

valve

Mitral valve Aortic valve

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Chest pain
04

Fatigue
02

Fainting

05

Dizziness
03

Symptoms
Swelling of your ankles and 06
feet.
Irregular heartbeat
 Symptoms

04 05
Abdominal Shortness of
swelling (more breath, particulary
common with when you have
advanced tricuspid been active or
regurgitation) when you lie down.
 Treatment

Currently, no medicines can cure heart valve disease. However,

lifestyle changes and medicines often can treat symptoms
successfully and delay problems for many years. Eventually,
though, you may need surgery to repair or replace a faulty
heart valve.
The goals of treating heart valve disease might include:
Medicines
Repairing or replacing faulty valves
Heart-healthy lifestyle changes to treat other related heart
conditions
 Prevention
A B
Heart-healthy
It’s possible that exercise, a eating, physical
heart-healthy diet, and activity, other heart-
medicines that lower A healthy
cholesterol might prevent lifestyle changes, and
aortic stenosis (thickening medicines aimed at
and stiffening of the aortic preventing a heart
valve). Researchers continue attack, high blood
to study this possibility. pressure, or heart
failure also may help
prevent heart valve
disease.
I personally think that
People must be more
careful in their habits and
customs, both food and
physical. So that, a lot of
diseases, especially
cardiovascular could be
avoided.
Did you know that cardiovascular diseases
are the leading cause of death in the world
and in most countries of America, where it
is estimated that they cause

1,900,000
deaths per year?
 “Good health is not something we can buy.
However, it can be extremely valuable savings
account.”
—Anne Wilson Schaef
 References
● Anonymous. (2019). “Heart Valve Disease”. National
Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. Consulted on Febreuary
16th, 2021th. Recovered from
https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health-topics/heart-valve-
disease