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Heart Disease (Expert Forum)
mitro valve thickening
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mitro valve thickening
by Waren, Jan 01, 1995 12:00AM
Posted By Warren on July 23, 1998 at 21:10:08:
I possibly had rheumatic fever as a child.
I was diagnosed, when I was sick a second time, as an adult.
I have aortic valve damage with mitro stenosis and for thirty years,
the mitro valve has carried the workload. Now I have been told that the
mitro is "thickening". I have been told i need the aortic valve. What does
this thickening mean to the situation? Is there a time factor here? Like does
thickening with regurgitation mean you have some vauge time period to react
with both valves being replaced? When will a thickening valve quit?
I possibly had rheumatic fever as a child.
I was diagnosed, when I was sick a second time, as an adult.
I have aortic valve damage with mitro stenosis and for thirty years,
the mitro valve has carried the workload. Now I have been told that the
mitro is "thickening". I have been told i need the aortic valve. What does
this thickening mean to the situation? Is there a time factor here? Like does
thickening with regurgitation mean you have some vauge time period to react
with both valves being replaced? When will a thickening valve quit?
