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Is Mitral Valve Prolapse considered heart disease ?

• If this prolapse considered heart disease. I was diagnosed years ago with it . My doctor at the time told me this is not heart disease and now I googled it and it said this is heart disease. Another person said this is valve disease ? I never asked my current doctor if it was or not. She checks me every 3 months because I have a heart murmur that you can have with this prolapse. whenever I have filled out questionaires about health history when they ask me if I have heart disease I always check no. If this considered heart disease or valve disease. I've never been to a cardiologist for it. Should a person have at least one evaluation from a cardiologist for this ?

• Answer:

  Its a valve disease. It is a valve between the right atria and right ventricle within the heart muscle. Mitral valve prolapse simply is the fact that the valve does not completly close once the blood is pushed down from the atria where the deoxygenated blood is where the new oxygenated blood will be after it goes through the pulminart artery to collect oxygen from the lungs, then comes back to the ventricle. What then happens because of the prolapse is it has a little regurgitation, or spitting back up some fresh oxygenated blood back to the atria, and then continues to the left atria through the corniary vein. Hope that explains why its more of a valve disease than the heart disease. Heart disease has to deal with the heart muscle. And its chambers. Then you have corniary artery disease which focuses on the arteries and veins of the heart and of course the valves which includes your aorta, bicuspid (mitral valve), and your tricuspid.