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If your mitral valve is leaky your blood isn’t flowing as it should, and shortness of breath, fatigue and other symptoms may develop. Since treatment may allow surgical repair of the valve, cardiovascular surgeon James Gammie at Johns Hopkins says …
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reports One of the valves in your heart known as the mitral valve is most likely to leak, and James Gammie, a cardiovascular surgeon at Johns Hopkins, says as people age the condition develops more often. Gammie: The cardinal symptom …
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Blood flows through your heart in one direction, with valves at the places where different chambers meet to keep things flowing right. The valve between the left atrium and the left ventricle is called the mitral valve, and cardiovascular surgeon …
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When blood flows backward from your left ventricle to your left atrium, that’s due to leakage of the mitral valve, found between these two chambers. Cardiovascular surgeon James Gammie at Johns Hopkins says there are different ways to develop this …
