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Mitral Stenosis: Heart Valve Disorders: Merck Manual Home Edition
If a woman with severe mitral stenosis becomes pregnant, heart failure may develop rapidly. Cause Mitral stenosis almost always results from rheumatic fever, a childhood ... lungs into the left atrium). Symptoms and Diagnosis Mild mitral stenosis does not usually cause symptoms. Some people with more severe mitral stenosis have atrial fibrillation or heart failure. People ...
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Aortic Stenosis: Heart Valve Disorders: Merck Manual Home Edition
Aortic stenosis may also result from rheumatic fever contracted in childhood. When rheumatic fever is the cause, aortic stenosis is usually accompanied by mitral stenosis, leakage (regurgitation), or both ... risk of an infection on the valve (infective endocarditis). For children who have severe stenosis, surgery may be performed even before symptoms develop, because sudden death may occur ...
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