Leaky Heart Valve Symptoms
Reviewed: Dr. Gromatzky
1. Heart Valves
Our heart beats have two main phases. First, the two smaller chambers (atriums) fill with blood and then contract to force the blood into the larger chambers (ventricles). The muscles of the ventricles then contract to force blood into other parts of the circulatory system.
In order to be able to push our blood around our bodies, the heart’s muscles will need to contract quite powerfully to generate enough force. With the kind of forces involved, valves are used to help ensure the blood is pushed in the right direction. If something was to go wrong with these valves then the heart might not operate as well as it should.
