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.

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 ...

In rheumatic heart disease, autoimmune inflammation involving the mitral valve produces thickening of the valve leaflets and commissural fusion. The mitral valve is often described as having a ...

ST. LOUIS – Dr. Sadoff, cardiothoracic surgeon with Prairie Cardiology discusses Mitral Valve Disease and how the disease ...