Challenges in Cardiology: Mixed Valvular Heart Disease

Valvular heart disease is either in form of stenosis or regurgitation that result from acquired pathology or related to congenital cardiac lesions. Mixed valvular disease is referred to having more than one valvular lesion together that may challenge the proper estimation of each valve severity. Previously, multivalvular disease with secondary effects on cardiac chambers, used to be attributed to rheumatic heart disease, which is the commonest cause of mitral stenosis.