Understand the different types of valvular heart disease, including regurgitation, stenosis, and atresia. Learn about symptoms, causes, and treatment options.

Valvular heart disease can, if found early, be managed and potentially mitigated before the need for surgery. As such, education is important so that cardiology patients know whether they are at risk.

Atresia when a heart valve fails to develop at all; Eventually, severe valve disease results in heart failure and thrombotic complications in many cases. Common heart valve diseases: ...

Tricuspid atresia, which affects your tricuspid valve. This blocks flow from your right atrium to your right ventricle. Regurgitation. This is when one of your heart valves doesn't close tightly, ...

The 3 patients who were operated on (Cases 1, 2 and 3) succumbed after surgery for their heart disease. At post-mortem examination each proved to have pulmonary-valve atresia with intact ...

The term ‘pulmonary’ refers to the lungs and ‘atresia’ means missing, so pulmonary atresia is a congenital heart defect in which the pulmonary valve of the infant is missing. The pulmonary ...

MULTIPLE occurrences of congenital heart disease within a family have been reported increasingly often in recent years. No doubt this reflects better diagnostic methods and greater concern with the ...

If a baby has pulmonary atresia, the pulmonary valve does not form correctly. Read on to learn more about pulmonary atresia, including the types, causes, risk factors, symptoms, and treatments.

Stenosis—Your valve thickens or narrows, obstructing blood flow. Atresia—You have a missing heart valve. Atresia is a congenital condition, meaning you’re born with it. Valve disease is most common in ...

Pulmonary atresia is a congenital heart irregularity in which the pulmonary valve doesn’t form properly, blocking blood flow from the heart to the lungs. Treatment often involves surgery to ...

Rastelli GC, Ongley PA, Davis GD, Kirklin JW 1965 Surgical repair for pulmonary valve atresia with coronary-pulmonary artery fistula: report of case. Mayo Clin Proc 40: 521–527.