Rheumatic heart disease chronically manifests as congestive heart failure from valvular involvement. Most commonly the mitral valve is affected, resulting in mitral stenosis or mitral regurgitation.

She spent many months in the hospital in an oxygen tent with severe congestive heart failure due to end-stage rheumatic mitral-valve disease, and had two previous attempts at mitral-valve repair.

In rheumatic heart disease, an autoimmune attack on the mitral valve produces thickening of the valve leaflets. The mitral valve is often described as having a "fish-mouth" appearance. Whether the ...

The mitral valve separates the left atrium (upper ... treatment for strep throat infection to prevent rheumatic fever Valvular heart disease is generally a chronic (long-term) condition, but ...

Other circumstances such as a defective valve at birth, or rheumatic fever, can also cause a leak ... or with a tissue valve which typically comes from a cow or pig), mitral valve disease can ...

For a long time, rheumatic fever was the predominant cause of organic MR. Now the main causes are mitral valve prolapse and ischemic heart disease. Patients with MR may remain asymptomatic for ...