Mitral valve prolapse treatment aims to relieve symptoms, prevent complications, and improve the quality of life of people who have blood that leaks back into their heart’s left atrium. Mitral valve ...

Mitral valve prolapse treatments include medication to manage symptoms, lifestyle changes, and in people with severe cases, surgical intervention to repair or replace the mitral valve. Mitral valve ...

There are no exercise restrictions for people with mitral valve prolapse. However, they should avoid the same unhealthy lifestyle practices that apply to everyone, including eating non-nutritious food ...

Mitral valve prolapse often requires making some lifestyle adjustments to manage your symptoms and prevent complications. Mitral valve prolapse occurs when the valve between your heart’s left upper ...

The valves in your heart keep the blood flowing in only one direction. When a heart valve isn’t working, the blood flows in the wrong direction, making your heart work harder and reducing blood flow ...

Inside the four chambers of your heart is a system designed to pump blood throughout your body. When that system works properly, blood flows through two chambers on the right side of your heart, then ...

Each helps to evaluate the degree of mitral valve prolapse and whether blood leakage is occurring. The good news is that mitral valve prolapse does not always require treatment. However, when the ...

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have been awarded a $10.2 million grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health to investigate ...