Tricuspid valve stenosis

The tricuspid valve is a little but very important valve in your heart that opens and shuts between the upper and lower righthand chambers. The tricuspid valve opens and lets blood flow out that the rest of your body needs to operate smoothly. When it opens, blood pumps out; the purpose of its shutting is to not allow any blood to creep back in.
The reason that you don't want blood creeping back in is that your heart wants to regulate how many times it beats, the rhythm it beats at, how much blood it's pumping, etc. And so it allows only so much to go out the tricuspid valve. And the tricuspid valve shuts, and your hearts continues beating, and the tricuspid valve opens, and everything keeps running smoothly and efficiently and your body feels it and appreciates it and lets you know it appreciates it by feeling happy

With tricuspid valve stenosis, on the other hand, you've got a problem occurring. Something in your heart suddenly goes amiss. What's happening is, your tricuspid valve is opening just like it should, but hesitating a little when it comes to closing. And when it hesitates, blood creeps back into the heart's upper chamber, just like that. And when blood creeps back into the heart's upper chamber, suddenly the heart is having to deal with more blood than it's used to. It's having to suddenly pump more, pump harder, pump faster, in order to get rid of the excess blood.
Tricuspid valve stenosis can lead to some very uncomfortable problems. Tricuspid valve stenosis can leave you dizzy, it can take your breath away, breathing doesn't come as easily as you're used to.
There are multiple causes for tricuspid valve stenosis, but the most common one by far is that you suffered from rheumatic fever as a child. Rheumatic fever is usually related to the strep virus. Rheumatic fever savages the heart, it scars it, and makes the tricuspid valve thick and clumsy, like a door that's been flooded so that the wood swells and it won't swing properly on its hinges.
The good news is: whether you're six or sixty, and are suffering from tricuspid valve stenosis, the disorder is treatable; that is, your doctor can work with you to fix it. Depending on how advanced your condition is, he or she will prescribe medications and remedies, changes of lifestyle, for example, which will work to alleviate the problem and hopefully get rid of it all together.
There are severe cases of tricuspid valve stenosis which will require sterner measures in order to be taken care of. These sterner measures can include surgery; you may even have to have your tricuspid valve replaced.
If you're suffering from the symptoms described above, you need to schedule an appointment with your doctor as soon as possible. Modern medicine offers sophisticated machines which can take photographs of the valves in your heart and find out if your blood is flowing properly or improperly.
Remember that it's possible to feel perfectly great, to feel nothing out of the normal, and still be suffering inwardly from tricuspid valve stenosis. Thus the importance of regular check ups. Let's run through the list of symptoms again, so that you can check yourself and decide whether or not it's time to schedule an appointment with your doctor.
 Tiredness
 Shortness of breath
 Chest pain
 Heavy, heavy coughing, sometimes accompanied by blood in your spit
 Swollen feet, swollen ankles

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