Dr. Ashish Khanijo is a Heart Specialist doctor, he provides expert Heart Valve Surgery in Pune. He holds an experience of 12+ years in his field. The heart is just like a pump made of muscle tissue having four pumping chambers. In which two are on the upper side called atria, and two on the lower side called ventricles. The job of these Valves between each of the heart’s pumping chambers is to keep blood flowing forward through the heart. When these valves are damaged or don’t work the intended way because of some reasons like ageing, birth defects etc. When one or more valves becomes stiff, the heart has to work harder to pump the blood through the valve. Heart valve surgery is a procedure to repair or replace unhealthy heart valves. The blood flowing from different cells of your heart must flow through a valve only, other than that the blood flowing towards the large arteries must also proceed through a heart valve. Heart Valve Surgery in Pune is carried out at Ruby Hall Clinic under the expert team of Dr. Ashish Khanijo. What is heart valve disease? In heart valve disease, out of the four heart valves that keep blood flowing in the correct direction through your heart at least one doesn’t function properly.These valves include the mitral valve, tricuspid valve, pulmonary valve and aortic valve. Each valve has flaps called leaflets, for the mitral and tricuspid valves, and cusps, for the aortic and pulmonary valves. These flaps open and close once during each heartbeat. Sometimes the valves don’t open or close properly. As a result, the blood flow through your heart to your body disturbs. In heart valve surgery, the affected heart valves are either repaired or replaced. Many surgical procedures may be used to repair or replace heart valves, including open-heart surgery or minimally invasive heart surgery. Dr. Ashish Khanijo is a Heart Valve replacement Doctor in Pune. He says in the case of Heart valve replacement, the aortic valve is the most commonly to be replaced, the mitral valve is the most commonly to be repaired. Only in rare cases the tricuspid valve or the pulmonic valve is either repaired or replaced depends on its condition. Symptoms of Heart Valve Disease: Dizziness Chest pain Breathing problem Palpitations Swelling of the feet, ankles, or abdomen