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(Tight aortic valve)

• Enlarged left ventricle,
• Reduced coronary blood flow,
• Heart failure.

• Heart failure weakness and breathlessness,
• Chest pain, fainting and sudden death – Sudden death on exertion.

(Tight mitral valve)

• Enlarged left atrium,
• Heart failure,
• Arial Fibrillation.

• Left heart failure,

• Short of breath,
• Weakness,
• Breathlessness,

• Palpitation from atrial fibrillation. Necessary to take warfarin.

(Leaking aortic valve)

• Due to increased work of the heart, enlarged, thickened left ventricle,
• Heart failure.

• Fluid in lungs,
• Shortness of breath on exertion,
• Fatigue, shortness of breath on lying down,
• “Paroxysmal Nocturnal Dyspnoea”.

(Leaking mitral valve)

• Increased muscle thickness left ventricle
• Congestion in lungs (heart failure)
• Atrial fibrillation

• Palpitation from atrial fibrillation
• Heart failure
• Shortness of breath on exertion

(Tight pulmonary valve)

• Reduced blood flow to lungs for oxygenation

• Low heart output,
• Breathlessness on exertion,
• Syncope.

(Leaking pulmonary valve)

• Heart failure.

(Tight Tricuspid Valve)

• Increased resistance of blood flow from right atrium to right ventricle.

• Abdominal discomfort due to enlarged liver,
• Oedema of legs,
• Right heart failure.

(Leaking Tricuspid valve)

• Often associated with severe long - standing lung disorder (such as emphysema),
• Enlarged right atrium.

• Atrial fibrillation,
• Enlarged liver,
• Heart failure – fluid in legs (oedema).