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I had an allergic reaction to Crestor and couldn't move my legs. I was on the floor of my bedroom for 4 days before a friend found me and called 911. I had PE's, severe rhabdomyolysis and drop foot. While performing tests, they did a cardiac workup. It showedthat I have 2 valves regurgitating and a trifleat in my right artery, which has an abnormal RV/LV ratio. This was not discussed with me or my mother. I found the reports and scans/imaging in my health portal. I talked to my PCP, who scheduled me for a coronary artery disease test, which I did this morning. My father, his mother, and both of his siblings all died fairly young from Heart disease/heart attacks. My cholesterol levels are off the charts high, but my insurance won't cover Repatha. I'm 41 and terrified, because I don't know what these findings mean. What is being regurgitated? Why were those findings not shared with me? If anyone has information about this subject, I would greatly appreciate any guidance.
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The regurgitation means the leaky valve.....leaks. They are all meant to be one-way valves. They open outward with the flow, and when the contracting pump/ventricle relaxes and the flow ceases, those leaflets close and prevent backflow...regurgitation. Picture the left ventricle as it pumps blood through the aortic valve, forcing oxygenated blood up and over the aortic arch where gravity would want to take over. That valve opens outward, (up into the aorta) toward the direction of flow. When the flow ceases and the ventricle fills again with the atrium's flow through the one-way mitral valve, the aortic valve closes to prevent the blood column still in the aorta from falling back into the ventricle due to gravity.
What is being regurgitated was your question. Blood. No harm to the blood or to the heart, but it makes the heart very inefficient as a pump. Even mechanical pumps have check valves and other parts to improve the flow, to check the flow, etc. The heart is no different. It has four valves: on the left side, the mitral valve and the aortic valve, and on the right side, the triscupid valve and the pulmonary valve. They all open with the flow/pressure to allow blood to move in one direction, which is what each of the four chambers of the heart are meant to do. Then, they close and prevent backflow so that the filling chamber can more easily force blood into the bigger ventricles, the big pumps.
I hope that all makes sense.
As for cholesterol, it can be controlled by diet to an extent (limited for some people, quite a lot for others), and that depends on the other component, genetics. I can't comment about a statin and finances, but if it comes down to a blocked artery, you would neet a bypass/stent. This would ideally come from frequent monitoring/imaging so that you don't have a high risk of a heart attack before they say to you that it's time to have that heart operation.