How the Heart Works During Rheumatic Mitral Stenosis: A Case Study on Healthcare

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CASE STUDY ON HEALTHCARE
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What processes are involved that can explain the homeostatic disturbances in
the clinical case scenario?
How the heart works during rheumatic mitral stenosis:
In the case of rheumatic mitral stenosis heart actually works abnormally. We all know that our
heart is the main organ of the circulatory system of our body. Our heart has four basic chambers
or valves. Two of them are atria which actually receive blood from veins and two of them are
ventricles which supply blood throughout the body. Four of those heart chambers opened and
closed in rhythm to let the blood flow normally (Wunderlich et al. 2019). The mitral valve situated
between the left atria and ventricle. This mitral valve consists of two small tissues called leaflets.
This mitral valve opens when blood flows from left atria to ventricle. Then the leaflets become
closed and prevent the blood flew to backwards. But when mitral valve damaged that time it
faces several complications in order to opening and closing (Veeramani et al. 2017). In the case of
mitral valve stenosis, the amount of blood flow gets reduced. Thus the oxygen supply inside the
heart also gets reduced. For this reason, the lungs do not work properly and the patient is
suffering from shortness of breathing and problematic breathing as well which is known as
dyspnoea. In the case of rheumatic mitral valve stenosis the blood creating lots of pressure in the
left atrium thus the left atrium become enlarged and the size of ventricle becomes squeezed.
Mitral valve stenosis is a disease that occurs due to irregular blood flow and some kind of
abnormalities inside the heart. This disease is also considered as the narrowing the heart's
specific mitral valve. In such cases, the heart's mitral valve does not open in a proper way and the
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