{"id":38156,"date":"2024-01-06T07:42:01","date_gmt":"2024-01-06T06:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/uncategorized\/prevention-and-risk-factors-of-aortic-valvulopathy\/"},"modified":"2024-01-22T12:26:44","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T11:26:44","slug":"prevention-and-risk-factors-of-aortic-valvulopathy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/heart-surgery\/prevention-and-risk-factors-of-aortic-valvulopathy\/","title":{"rendered":"Prevention and risk factors of aortic valvulopathy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Aortic insufficiency<\/strong> is a direct result of improper closure of the valve, which causes blood pumped from the left ventricle to be redirected.<br \/>\nAt the level of symptoms, difficult breathing, exhaustion appear, but more relevant disorders and symptoms such as heart failure and endocarditis may also occur.<br \/>\nUsually aortic insufficiency caused by<strong> valvulopathy<\/strong> can also remain silent for years without giving rise to symptoms, or manifesting only in mild complaints to which the person may not pay attention.<br \/>\nHowever, as a result of comorbid situations or other heart disease present, such as endocarditis, aortic insufficiency can then become evident in a severe form, decompensating the heart.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to prevent aortic insufficiency?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>First of all, <strong>blood pressure<\/strong> should always be watched, as untreated high values can damage the valvular structure of the heart.<br \/>\nThen <strong>rheumatic disease<\/strong> poses a significant risk when it comes to the prevention of aortic insufficiency and<strong>endocarditis<\/strong>, so rheumatism, recurrent sore throats, streptococcal infections, dental abscesses, gingivitis, but also effects from autoimmune diseases need to be kept in check.<\/p>\n<p>The prevention of valvulopathy cannot be attributed to a few preventive actions but rather to many, so every person will be able to follow basic preventive rules to reduce this risk, and they are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Abolish smoking.<\/li>\n<li>Adopt a healthy diet of fruits and vegetables, whole grains, low-fat dairy products, fish, lean meats preferring foods low in cholesterol, saturated fat, sugar and salt.<\/li>\n<li>Gymnastic exercises, walking, or other moderate physical activity. Before choosing a type of physical activity or sport ask for advice from the attending physician, who, knowing the condition of the heart, will be able to direct the choice correctly and risk-free.<\/li>\n<li>Maintain constant hygiene of the mouth, teeth and oral cavity by practicing constant tooth cleaning in the dental office, but also on a personal level, in order to avoid the development of local infections.<\/li>\n<li>Inform your dentist of your heart condition in case you have to undergo dental treatment with risk of infection, a danger for endocarditis.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Risk factors for aortic valvulopathy are then to be considered<\/strong>, <strong>such as<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A patient well along in years.<\/li>\n<li>The presence of congenital heart disease.<\/li>\n<li>Some preexisting conditions such as chronic kidney disease.<\/li>\n<li>Undergoing radiation therapy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Possible complications to be aware of can be serious or very serious and risky for the patient such as an abnormal heart rhythm<\/strong>,<strong> stroke<\/strong>,<strong> and up to cardiac arrest<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aortic insufficiency is a direct result of improper closure of the valve, which causes blood pumped from the left ventricle to be redirected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8782,"featured_media":26712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":"","_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"","_twitter_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type":"","_pinterest_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[]},"categories":[1741,1731],"tags":[],"corpo":[1763,1771],"table_tags":[],"class_list":["post-38156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-medicine","category-heart-surgery","corpo-heart-and-circulation","corpo-nervous-system","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8782"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40125,"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38156\/revisions\/40125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38156"},{"taxonomy":"corpo","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/corpo?post=38156"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myspecialdoctor.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=38156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}