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Mitral valve stenosis

Balloon valvuloplasty

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ARES Cardiology Center

Romania

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ARES Cardiology Center
Balloon valvuloplasty

Valvuloplasty is performed, in certain circumstances, to open a stenotic (stiff) heart valve.

Valves of the heart

The heart is a pump made of muscle tissue. The heart has four pumping chambers: two upper chambers, called atria, and two lower chambers, called ventricles. The right atrium pumps blood into the right ventricle, which then pumps the blood into the lungs where carbon dioxide is given off and oxygen is taken into the blood.

From the lungs, the blood flows back into the left atrium, is pumped into the left ventricle, and then is pumped through the aorta out to the rest of the body and the coronary arteries. When the atria are pumping, the ventricles are relaxed in order to receive the blood from the atria. Once the atria have pumped their entire blood load into the ventricles, they relax while the ventricles pump the blood out to the lungs and to the rest of the body.

In order to keep the blood flowing forward during its journey through the heart, there are valves between each of the heart’s pumping chambers:

Tricuspid valve – located between the right atrium and the right ventricle

Pulmonary (or pulmonic) valve – located between the right ventricle and the pulmonary artery

Mitral valve – located between the left atrium and the left ventricle

Aortic valve – located between the left ventricle and the aorta

If the heart valves become damaged or diseased, they may not function properly. Conditions that may cause dysfunction of heart valves are valvular stenosis and valvular insufficiency (regurgitation). When one (or more) valve(s) becomes stenotic (stiff), the heart muscle must work harder to pump the blood through the valve.

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