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Essentially, you get valve replacement if the leak is very bad and affecting your health.

Particularly if you become symptomatic from it
- collapses
- bad angina
- very short of breath

There are some criteria that the cardiac surgeons will apply when they look at the ECHOcardiography studies of the valve but this is a little detailed.

Essentially, they are looking at pressure gradients across the valve. If they are high, then they operate.

2006-08-31 05:47:14 · answer #1 · answered by Orinoco 7 · 0 0

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