Valvular Heart Diseases

Please note that we want you to know common valvular heart diseases and general knowledge not the rare ones. If you can answer these questions, my personal feeling is you are qualified.

1. Rheumatic heart disease, is it the same as rheumatic fever?
2. Those who have long standing mitral stenosis; does their left ventricle dilated?
3. Those who have symptomatic mitral stenosis although medically treated; what are other options?
4. Those who have severe mitral stenosis; how atrial fibrillation with rapid ventricular response makes the patients more symptomatic?
5. About mitral valve surgery, do you know the difference between mitral valve repair and mitral valve replacement?
6. About mitral valve replacement in the old age group, give the reason why choose bioprosthetic valve.
7. About mitral valve repair compared with mitral valve replacement, is it true that after successful mitral valve repair, there's no need for longterm anticoagulation?
8. Should the patient with acute severy aortic regurgitation use IABP as an alternative treatment to surgery?
9. Can IABP save the patient from heart failure due to severe aortic stenosis?
10. Give information about Warfarin administration to the patient (and his/her family)
11. If the patient does not want to take aortic valve replacement from asymptomatic severe aortic stenosis, how do you response to this scenario?