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Heart Stenosis
Your pulmonary artery is what takes blood from your heart to your lungs. When your heart beats, your right ventricle (lower right chamber of your heart) contracts and pushes blood out of your heart in to your pulmonary artery.
Located between the lower right chamber of your heart and your main pulmonary artery is a heart valve that is known as the pulmonic valve. What your pulmonic valve does is prevent blood from leaking back into your heart in between your heartbeats.
Your pulmonic valve is made up of three thin leaflets when it is normal. When your pulmonic valve is defective, the condition is known as pulmonic stenosis.
Pulmonic stenosis is characterized by the leaflets of your pulmonic valve being too thick, fused together or fewer than three. When this occurs, your pulmonic valve is too narrow. This leads to your heart being required to work harder in order to pump the right amount of blood to your body.
Pulmonic stenosis may bring about only minor or mild obstruction of your pulmonic valve. However, pulmonic stenosis can also cause obstruction that is moderate, severe or critical.
Pulmonic artery stenosis usually results from a defect that develops during the forming of an unborn baby’s heart. When a defect occurs before you are born, it is said to be congenital. This means that in most instances, pulmonic stenosis is something that you are born with. At the present time, no one knows what causes this defect in your pulmonic valve to occur. If you are afflicted with pulmonic stenosis, you may meet the requirements for receiving social security disability benefits, such as SSDI or SSI. A wise decision is to seek the counsel of one of the social security attorneys at socialsecurityhome.com. The social security attorneys at socialsecurityhome.com have a great deal of experience in matters relating to disability benefits.
There are times when having an artificial heart valve or other medical disorders may also lead to pulmonic stenosis. This is especially true of older people. These medical conditions include:
- Rheumatic fever, which is a complication of an infection caused by streptococcus bacteria, such as strep throat or scarlet fever.
- Carcinoid syndrome, which is a syndrome that is characterized by flushing of your skin and diarrhea. It is caused by the release of a chemical that is called serotonin. Serotonin gets released by growths in your digestive system that are referred to as carcinoid tumors.
Even though pulmonic stenosis results from birth defects most of the time, there are some risk factors that may increase your risk of developing this condition. Some of the conditions that may result in pulmonic stenosis are:
- Rheumatic fever
- Noonan’s syndrome
- Carcinoid syndrome
5 signs you might have Pulmonic Stenosis
The signs and symptoms that pulmonic stenosis produces are usually determined by the extent to which your blood is obstructed as it flows from your right ventricle to your lungs. Signs and symptoms include:
- A heart murmur
- Shortness of breath that is more prominent during exertion
- Fatigue
- Chest pain
- Fainting
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