Aorta Stenosis Symptoms
Aorta stenosis occurs when your aortic valve, the valve between the aorta and the left ventricle, becomes abnormally narrow. The valve is calcified and does not open wide to allow the oxygenated blood to flow into our main pipeline. The heart struggles because it has to win a lot of resistance to pump oxygenated blood into our circulation.
At first, aorta stenosis may produce no symptoms at all. As the condition worsens, you will begin to feel breathless after physical activity. Specific treatment for aorta stenosis will be determined by your physician based on:
• Your overall health and medical history
• Extent of the disease
• Your signs and symptoms
• Your tolerance for specific medications, procedures, or therapies
• Expectations for the course of the disease
• Your opinion
Patients with aorta stenosis can be observed for many years, and the situation usually remains stable. In advanced stages such as shortness of breath, faintness or chest pain, the risk of sudden death rises exponentially, hybrid surgery is required to correct this problem. There is no medical treatment to reverse aorta stenosis.
For patients with less advanced disease, follow-up echocardiography is recommended as follows, for patients with:
Severe Aorta Stenosis: yearly
Moderate Aorta Stenosis: every 3 years
Mild Aorta Stenosis: every 5 years
Percutaneous and catheter based procedures are available for patients who are not candidates for surgical replacement. The treatment for severe aorta stenosis is surgery, and the most common form of surgery is valve replacement.
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