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Q: Valvular Heart Disease

Valvular heart disease is a malfunction of heart valve and leaded heart problem. We have four valves in our heart, but most of valvular heart disease occurs in mitral valve and aortic valve. The valve problem is divided into two types; stenosis (the valve cannot open properly and disturb blood flow) and regurgitation (the valve cannot close properly and blood flow regurgitate). Since the two valves can have both two problems, there are four types of valvular heart diseases.
When these valvular heart diseases are diagnosed, auscultation is quite important because each disease have their unique findings. In healthy person, we can hear only two sounds; first heart sound and second heart sound. However, the patients with heart disease show rumble, murmur or other irregular sound.
These diseases finally lead to heart failure, atrial fibrillation or infarction caused by blood clots. Treatment for the valvular heart disease is a valve replacement. soa natural?

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