What is Pulmonary Valve Stenosis?
Pulmonary valve stenosis is a rare kind of heart valve defect. Heart is the vital organ of the body that pumps blood all through the body and collects back deoxygenated blood returning from different parts of the body. The heart has 4 chambers 2 upper atrium and 2 bottom ventricles. The atrium and ventricles are separated by valves, which provide unidirectional blood flow. Left ventricle opens in the aorta that supplies oxygenated blood to the body via other arteries.
Each valve has three cusps except mitral valve which has two cusps.
In case of pulmonary valve stenosis, the pulmonary valve is shrunk so that it does not open normally. Due to this, the flow of deoxygenated blood that goes through a pulmonary artery to lungs for oxygenation is restricted. The defect may not always present with severe manifestations and the patient usually lives a normal life.
Symptoms
Causes
Complications of pulmonary valve stenosis
Diagnosis
Treatment
A lot of people may not require any treatment at all. Symptomatic treatment is given until normal life is not disturbed.
Most cases do not even require any management. A few may require above management options. A healthy lifestyle, heart-friendly diet and mild physical activity will take long you a long way forward.
Dr. Sajal Gupta, Consultant – Cardiology, Dharamshila Narayana Superspeciality Hospital, Delhi
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