Heart Valve Damage: Aortic Stenosis - a podcast by Osceola Regional Medical Center

The is called aortic stenosis and because the aortic valve doesn't open properly the left ventricle the main chamber of the heart has to work harder to squeeze blood thru a smaller and smaller orifice. And eventually when the valve gets really small the left ventrical finds it difficult to cope and begins to fail. / In that situation the treatment is to surgically remove the valve and replace it, and the surgeons at our hospital are very good at doing that. We have the only surgeon in Central Florida that is able to do it with a minimally evasive incision, a small incision on the right side of the chest which is a unique skill.

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