{"id":1115,"date":"2010-05-10T06:20:52","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T11:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2010\/05\/10\/calcified-mitral-valve-stenosis-replacement-picture\/"},"modified":"2019-02-26T20:49:27","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T01:49:27","slug":"calcified-mitral-valve-stenosis-replacement-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2010\/05\/10\/calcified-mitral-valve-stenosis-replacement-picture\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;What Does Mitral Stenosis Look Like?&#8221; Asks Ted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ted just sent me a very appropriate question about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/mitral-stenosis-symptoms-narrow.php\">mitral valve stenosis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He writes, &#8220;Adam &#8211; I&#8217;ll be going in for mitral valve surgery due to stenosis next month. I&#8217;m doing my best to cope with the reality of open heart surgery. Quick question&#8230; Do you know what mitral valve stenosis looks like? Thanks for everything, Ted&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/Images\/Mitral-valve-stenosis.jpg\" alt=\"Severely Calcified Mitral Valve Stenosis\" width=\"375\" height=\"251\" \/><br \/>\nMitral Valve Stenosis &#8211; Calcified Leaflets<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As you may know, mitral stenosis is the narrowing of the opening of the heart&#8217;s mitral valve. Shown above, thickened valve leaflets do not open-and-close properly and causes interference with blood flow.<\/p>\n<p>This picture comes from a 72-year old male who was experiencing symptoms (breathlessness) due to mitral stenosis, according to Dr. Jeremy Jones. The patient required mitral valve replacement.<\/p>\n<p>Although Ted did not explicitly ask for it, many patients are also curious to see the steps by which a mitral valve is replaced. Thanks to <em>The Brazilian Journal of Cardiology<\/em>, the picture below illustrates the steps by which a severely calcified mitral valve is replaced with a bovine bioprosthesis (also known as a cow valve replacement). The 52-year old female patient was released from the hospital six days after surgery.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/Images\/mitral-valve-replacement.jpg\" alt=\"Mitral Valve Replacement With Bovine (Cow) Valve\" width=\"350\" height=\"297\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Mitral Valve Replacement With Bovine Valve<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I hope this helps Ted (and perhaps you) learn a little more about mitral stenosis and the process to remove and replace a diseased heart valve.<\/p>\n<p>As they say&#8230; A picture is worth a thousand words, right?<\/p>\n<p>Keep on tickin!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adams-updates"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}