Heart Conditions and Diseases
Shelby Hanson
Supraventricular Tachycardia (SVT)
Cardiomyopathy
Heart Valve Problems
Heart Valve Problems is much like it sounds. Heart Valve Problems is when your heart doesn’t open or close completely. This could lead to “blood leaking into your cardiac chambers, and making your heart work harder by requiring heart chambers to contract more forcefully to move blood across a narrowed valve” (Heart Foundation). With your heart having to work harder to keep the blood flowing throughout your body, you may get some kind of chest discomfort. Other symptoms of this disorder would be shortness of breath and feeling light headed;simply because your heart is working harder than normal. Heart Valve Problems could just be something you're born with due to a relative having it, and it being passed down (MedicineNet). As you get older, your heart does too. With aging, you could develop this problem.