{"id":32583,"date":"2020-12-10T11:12:31","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T16:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/?p=32583"},"modified":"2020-12-10T11:35:09","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T16:35:09","slug":"mitral-regurgitation-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2020\/12\/10\/mitral-regurgitation-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Heart Valve Alert:  Deaths Due To Mitral Regurgitation Increasing!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you missed it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uab.edu\/news\/research\/item\/11741-deaths-due-to-mitral-valve-disease-in-u-s-increased-in-last-six-years-after-14-years-of-continuous-decline\">New research<\/a> by the University of Alabama at Birmingham suggests that deaths due to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/mitral-valve-regurgitation-symptoms-leaking.php\">mitral valve regurgitation<\/a> in the United States have increased during the past six years after fourteen years of ongoing declines.<\/p>\n<p>Patients with mitral regurgitation have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/leaking-heart-valve-symptoms.php\">a leaky heart valve<\/a> which forces the heart to work &#8220;over-time&#8221; to re-pump blood into the body.\u00a0 The condition can cause patients to feel tired, short-of-breath, dizzy and experience chest pain.\u00a0 \u00a0It is also important to note that patients can have severe mitral regurgitation and no symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uab.edu\/news\/research\/item\/11741-deaths-due-to-mitral-valve-disease-in-u-s-increased-in-last-six-years-after-14-years-of-continuous-decline\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/Images\/deaths-mitral-regurgitation-research.jpg\" alt=\"Mitral Regurgitation Death Research\" width=\"600\" height=\"314\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A serious cardiac disorder related to mitral regurgitation is atrial fibrillation (AFib), an abnormal heart rhythm, which can also lead to heart palpitations, fatigue and chest pain. <\/p>\n<p>Patients with mitral valve disease are 35% more likely to have AFib, according to Dr. Jonathan Philpott at Sentara Heart Institute in Norfolk, Virgina. Unfortunately, patients with AFib are 5 times more likely to have a stroke, according the American Heart Association. Click the following link to learn about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/atrial-fibrillation\/\">heart valve disease and atrial fibrillation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As we have learned together, heart valve disease is under-diagnosed and under-treated.\u00a0 Unfortunately, AFib is also seriously under-treated.\u00a0 In new research just published by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/surgeons\/dr-Patrick-McCarthy-Chicago-Illinois.php\">Dr. Patrick McCarthy at Northwestern Medicine<\/a>, only 38% of patients with mitral regurgitation and AFib had their AFib treated during cardiac procedures for the mitral valve.<\/p>\n<p>This is another big reminder to please monitor your mitral regurgitation and any other cardiac condition you may have been diagnosed with &#8212; especially if you are experiencing symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>Keep on tickin!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mitral-regurgitation"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32583","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=32583"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32592,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32583\/revisions\/32592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}