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If a patient has mitral stenosis how will this effect heart failure risk?

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Dr. Seth Zeidman answered

Specializes in Neurosurgery

May Increase: If mitral stenosis is severe, pressure increases in the blood vessels of the lungs, resulting in heart failure with fluid accumulation in the lungs and a low level of oxygen in the blood.

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Answered 8/1/2012

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