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Heart Valve Replacement Surgery: Procedure, Risks, and Recovery Guide

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  *Introduction - Your heart is a powerful and reliable organ, beating around 100,000 times every day to keep blood flowing throughout your body. Each beat depends on the proper functioning of four delicate valves — the aortic valve, mitral valve, tricuspid valve, and pulmonary valve. These valves act like one-way doors, opening to let blood flow forward and closing to prevent it from flowing backward. But when a valve becomes damaged, stiff, or leaky due to disease, age, or infection, your heart’s efficiency drops dramatically. This can lead to shortness of breath, fatigue, swelling, irregular heart rhythms, and even life-threatening complications like heart failure. When valve repair isn’t enough, heart valve replacement may be the best — and sometimes the only — option to restore healthy blood circulation. This surgery replaces the damaged valve with a mechanical or biological prosthetic, allowing the heart to work normally again. In this comprehensive guide, we’ll cover: Why va...