A different symptom due to mitral valve stenosis: Back pain

Year 2013, Volume: 18 Issue: 2, 87 - 89, 03.07.2013

Ali Kemal Gur , Vural Polat

Abstract

Abstract. The most significant parameter that comes forthamong symptoms affiliated with mitral stenosis is a chronic increase in theleft atrium pressure. The very first symptom is effort dyspnea. Other symptomsmay include fatigue, chronic coughing due to enlargement of the left atrium,hemoptysis, orthopnea, paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea, tiredness, symptomsrelated with right cardiac failure and pulmoner edema. In our case, we presenta very different symptom which accompanies these symptoms: back pain. Severemitral stenosis was determined with echocardiography in patient. We assumethat, back pain may have disappeared after mitral replacement and which makesus think that back pain had originated from the calcified thrombosis whichcompletely covered the left atrium base and the atrium wall. Key words: Mitral valve stenosis, back pain

Keywords

Mitral valve stenosis, back pain

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