I have mitral valve prolapse, I want to continue lifting weights.. Can i lift weights?here's my latest echo result.1. Normal left ventricular size with non-thickened walls with adequate wall motion and systolic function (EF = 70%)2. Normal left atrium without intracardiac thrombus3. Normal right atrium, right ventricle, main pulmonary artery and aortic root dimensions.4. The anterior mitral valve leaflet prolapses into the left atrium during ventricular systole.5. Structurally normal aortic valve, tricuspid valve and pulmonic valve.6. No pericardial effusion noted.COLOR FLOW DOPPLER STUDY:No abnormal color flow display across the valves, interatrial and interventricular septae.Normal pulmonary artery pressure by acceleration time.
Good question, excellent details! The best advice I can give you, due to the complications associated with mitral valve prolapse, I would recommend you perform a stress test. Real easy procedure, heart rate is increased, generally by mechanical motion (ig running), cardiac cycle is monitored on screen. Basically here is the problem, your flaps on your mitral valve are being pushed back into the region of your heart that feeds the contracting area (left atrium), contracting region being the left ventricle. When this occurs, it greatly increases the possibility of back-flow of blood to the pulmonary veins and back to the lungs, which is REALLY bad. Without going into further detail, my best recommendation would be a stress test. Hope that helped. Good luck.
overall picture doesn't prevent you from doing mild to moderate exercise, but with wait lifting we should think twice.
