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How will you manage a case of aortic regurgitation

Management of aortic regurgitation is both medical and surgical.
1.    Porphylaxis of rheumatic fever and infective endocarditis is given.
2.    Avoid all the precipitating factors.
-          Exertion
-          Anemia
-          Thyroid disease
-          Rheumatic fever
-          Infective endocarditis
-          Arrhythmia
Avoid and correct all these precipitating factors.
3.    Reduce the regurgitation.
          Long acting nifedipine can  increase the heart rate there by decreasing the duration of diastole.
Management of  symptomatic patients
          It include
-          Diuretics
-          ACE inhibitors
-          Digoxin