Mitral stenosis

Mitral stenosis: Introduction

Mitral stenosis: Narrowing of the mitral heart valve. More detailed information about the symptoms, causes, and treatments of Mitral stenosis is available below.

Symptoms of Mitral stenosis

• No symptoms - in many cases
• Similar to symptoms of mitral incompetence
• Diastolic murmur
• more symptoms...»

Home Diagnostic Testing

Home medical testing related to Mitral stenosis:

• High Blood Pressure: Home Testing
  • Home Blood Pressure Hypertension Tests
  • Home Blood Pressure Monitors
  • Home Heart Tests
• Heart Health: Home Testing:
  • Heart Rate Monitors
  • Irregular Heartbeat Detection
  • Heart Electrocardiogram (ECG)
  • Home Blood Pressure Testing
  • Home Cholesterol Testing
• more tests...»

Mitral stenosis: Complications

Read more about complications of Mitral stenosis.

Wrongly Diagnosed with Mitral stenosis?

• Misdiagnosis of Mitral stenosis
• Failure to diagnose Mitral stenosis
• Hidden causes of Mitral stenosis (possibly wrongly diagnosed)
• Undiagnosed: Mitral stenosis

Mitral stenosis: Self Assessment Tools

• Stroke -- Self Assessment Tools
• Heart Attack -- Self Assessment Tools
• Stress -- Self Assessment Tools
• Smoking -- Self Assessment Tools
• Weight Management -- Self Assessment Tools
• Heart Disease -- Self Assessment Tools
• more tools...»

Mitral stenosis: Medical Mistakes

• Hypertension -- Health Mistakes
• Cholesterol -- Health Mistakes
• Obesity -- Health Mistakes
• Diabetes -- Health Mistakes
• Metabolic Syndrome -- Health Mistakes
• more mistakes...»

Mitral stenosis: Marketplace Products, Discounts & Offers

Products, offers and promotion categories available for Mitral stenosis:

• Dieting & Weight management: products & offers »
• Heart health products & offers »
• High cholesterol
• more product offers...»

Mitral stenosis: Undiagnosed Conditions

Commonly undiagnosed diseases in related medical categories:

• Chronic Major Diseases that are commonly Undiagnosed:
  • High Cholesterol -- Undiagnosed
  • Heart Disease -- Undiagnosed
  • Cancer -- Undiagnosed
  • Depression -- Undiagnosed
  • Type 2 Diabetes -- Undiagnosed
  • Type 1 Diabetes -- Undiagnosed
  • Hypertension -- Undiagnosed
  • Hemochromatosis -- Undiagnosed
  • Metabolic Syndrome -- Undiagnosed
• more undiagnosed conditions...»

Misdiagnosis and Mitral stenosis

Heart attacks can be undiagnosed: Although the most severe symptoms of heart attack are hard to miss, there are varying degrees of severity. It is altogether too common for people to die from undiagnosed heart attack, or from...read more »

Heart attacks can be overdiagnosed: Although many people die from heart attacks, there are also many cases where people fear that they have a heart attack, but actually have something milder. Some of the conditions which may be ...read more »

Rare heart condition often undiagnosed: The rare heart condition called long QT syndrome can lead to episodes of palpitations and rapid heartbeat. In rare cases, this undiagnosed condition can be fatal. It should be...read more »

Heart attack can be over-diagnosed: Although heart attack is often undiagnosed, leading to fatality, it can also be over-diagnosed. People become concerned that a condition is a heart attack, whereas there are...read more »

Blood pressure cuffs misdiagnose hypertension in children: One known misdiagnosis issue with hyperension, arises in relation to the simple equipment used to test blood pressure. The "cuff" around the arm to measure blood...read more »

Hypertension misdiagnosis common in children: Hypertension is often misdiagnosed in adults (see misdiagnosis of hypertension), but its misdiagnosis is even...read more »

differentiate the causes of hemoptysis: Hemoptysis is the presence of blood in the sputum. Hemoptysis is graded according to the volume of blood. It points out...read more »

Read more about Misdiagnosis and Mitral stenosis

Mitral stenosis: Research Doctors & Specialists

Research related physicians and medical specialists:

• Cholesterol Specialists:
  • Clinical Lipidology (Cholesterol/Triglycerides)
  • Diabetes, Endocrinology & Metabolism
• Cardiac (Heart) Specialists:
  • Cardiology (Heart specialists)
  • Pediatric Cardiology (Child Heart Specialists)
  • Cardiothoracic Surgery
  • Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology
  • Interventional Cardiology
• more specialists...»

Other doctor, physician and specialist research services:

• Rate Your Doctor Online
• Research Your Doctor Online
• Review Patient Surveys About Your Doctor
• Research local specialists including ratings, affiliations, and sanctions.

Hospitals & Clinics: Mitral stenosis

Research quality ratings and patient safety measures for medical facilities in specialties related to Mitral stenosis:

• Heart Health (Cardiac Care) -- Hospital Quality Ratings
• more hospital ratings...»

Hospital & Clinic quality ratings » »

Choosing the Best Hospital: More general information, not necessarily in relation to Mitral stenosis, on hospital performance and surgical care quality:

• 50 Best Hospitals Report
• Outstanding Patient Experinece Award Winning Hospitals
• Women's Health Best Hospitals
• Patient Safety
• Hospital Quality and Clinical Excellence Study (2009)

Mitral stenosis: Rare Types

Rare types of diseases and disorders in related medical categories:

• Chronic Major Diseases -- Rare Types:
  • High Cholesterol -- Rare Types
  • Heart Disease -- Rare Types
  • Cancer -- Rare Types
  • Depression -- Rare Types
  • Type 2 Diabetes -- Rare Types
  • Type 1 Diabetes -- Rare Types
  • Hypertension -- Rare Types
  • Hemochromatosis -- Rare Types
  • Metabolic Syndrome -- Rare Types
• more rare diseases...»

Causes of Mitral stenosis

• Rheumatic fever - usually from many years ago in childhood
• more causes...»

Read more about causes of Mitral stenosis

More information about causes of Mitral stenosis:

• Underlying causes of Mitral stenosis
• Mitral stenosis as a symptom

Treatments for Mitral stenosis

• Calcium antagonists
• Beta blockers
• Digitalis
• Anticoagulants
• Warfarin
• more treatments...»

See full list of 9 treatments for Mitral stenosis

Latest Treatments for Mitral stenosis

• Oxygen
• Digoxin
• Diltiazem
• Frusemide
• Heparin
• more treatments...»

See full list of 9 latest treatments for Mitral stenosis

Evidence Based Medicine Research for Mitral stenosis

Medical research articles related to Mitral stenosis include:

• Guidelines for the Management of Anticoagulant and Antiplatelet Therapy in Patients Undergoing Endoscopic Procedures
• Heart - mitral stenosis (diagram)
• Diagnosis and Treatment of Acute and Chronic Heart Failure
• Antithrombotic therapy in atrial fibrillation. American College of Chest Physicians evidence-based clinical practice guidelines (8th edition).
• Mitral Stenosis During Pregnancy
• Calcific Mitral Stenosis Severe 3
• more research...»

Click here to find more evidence-based articles on the TRIP Database

Videos for Mitral stenosis

Patient Surveys for Mitral stenosis

• Patient Profile Survey
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• Survey about the symptoms of your Mitral stenosis
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Reseach about Mitral stenosis

Visit our research pages for current research about Mitral stenosis treatments.

Clinical Trials for Mitral stenosis

The US based website ClinicalTrials.gov lists information on both federally and privately supported clinical trials using human volunteers.

Some of the clinical trials listed on ClinicalTrials.gov for Mitral stenosis include:

• Balloon Valvuloplasty Registry - This study has been completed (Current: 23 Nov 2006)
• Logical Analysis of Data and Cardiac Surgery Risk - This study is no longer recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006)
• more trials...»

Read more about Clinical Trials for Mitral stenosis

Mitral stenosis: Broader Related Topics

• Heart conditions
• Heart valve diseases
• Mitral valve disease
• more types...»

Types of Mitral stenosis

Stories from Users Related to Mitral stenosis

• My daughter and her mitral valve disorder

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  • More user stories

User Interactive Forums

Read about other experiences, ask a question about Mitral stenosis, or answer someone else's question, on our message boards:

• I can not get a diagnosis. Please help.
• Tell us your medical story.
• Share your misdiagnosis story.
• What is the best treatment for this?
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Definitions of Mitral stenosis:

A rheumatic disease causing diffuse thickening of the mitral valve leaflets by fibrous tissue or calcific deposits. (Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 13th ed, p1052) - (Source - Diseases Database)

Obstruction or narrowing of the mitral valve (as by scarring from rheumatic fever) - (Source - WordNet 2.1)