valve (mitral regurgitation) or the mitral valve may be narrowed (mitral stenosis). Rheumatic heart disease often affects the mitral valve; the valve...

Mitral Valve Prolapse murmur at mitral area Heart sounds of a 16-year-old girl diagnosed with mitral valve prolapse and mitral regurgitation. Auscultating...

Mitral Valve Prolapse murmur at mitral area Heart sounds of a 16-year-old girl diagnosed with mitral valve prolapse and mitral regurgitation. Auscultating...

Mitral stenosis is a valvular heart disease characterized by the narrowing of the opening of the mitral valve of the heart. It is almost always caused...

(bioprosthetic) valve. The mitral valve may need to be replaced because:[citation needed] The valve is leaky (mitral valve regurgitation) The valve is narrowed...

the lower ventricles – the mitral valve in the left heart, and the tricuspid valve in the right heart. The other two valves are at the entrance to the...

stenosis (narrowing) or regurgitation (leakage) of the mitral valve. The mitral valve is the "inflow valve" for the left side of the heart. Blood flows from...

Mitral Valve Prolapse murmur Heart sounds of a 16-year-old girl diagnosed with mitral valve prolapse and mitral regurgitation. Auscultating her heart...

function Aortic valve Aortic valve sclerosis & stenosis Aortic valve insufficiency Mitral valve Mitral stenosis Mitral regurgitation Tricuspid valve Tricuspid...

coaptation and aids to re-establish mitral valve function. Mitral regurgitation is the most common form of mitral valve dysfunction. Today more than 2.5...

closure of the mitral valve leaflets or mitral valve prolapse will cause the valve significantly leak during closure known as mitral valve insufficiency...

the tricuspid valve and the mitral valve in the heart. The chordae tendineae connect the atrioventricular valves (tricuspid and mitral), to the papillary...

atrium, owing to insufficiency of the mitral valve; it may be acute or chronic, and is usually due to mitral valve prolapse, rheumatic heart disease, or...

Mitral annular disjunction (MAD) is a structural abnormality of the heart in the mitral annulus ring. It is generally defined as an abnormal displacement...

coronary leaflet is in continuation with mitral valve's anterior leaflet forming the aortic-mitral curtain. Mitral valve separates left atrium with left ventricle...

valve prolapse and mitral regurgitation. Auscultating her heart, a systolic murmur and click are heard. Recorded with the stethoscope over the mitral...

valves. The human heart contains four valves: tricuspid valve, pulmonary valve, mitral valve and aortic valve. Their main purpose is to keep blood flowing...

systolic murmurs. Mitral Valve Prolapse murmur at mitral area Heart sounds of a 16-year-old girl diagnosed with mitral valve prolapse and mitral regurgitation...

tested and successfully placed in a patient the first Starr-Edwards mitral valve in 1960. As a result of the successful heart surgery, Edwards Laboratories...

therapy. Since 2013, mitral clips have been implanted via catheter as a new strategy to correct the motion of the mitral valve in people with severe...

complications involve the heart and aorta, with an increased risk of mitral valve prolapse and aortic aneurysm. The lungs, eyes, bones, and the covering...

stages of the disease. Mitral Valve Prolapse murmur Heart sounds of a 16 year old girl diagnosed with mitral valve prolapse and mitral regurgitation. Auscultating...

have heart problems – mitral valve disease is generally (as in humans) a disease of old age. The "hinge" on the heart's mitral valve loosens and can gradually...

Normally, the mitral valve is the only bicuspid valve and this is situated between the heart's left atrium and left ventricle. Heart valves play a crucial...

atrioventricular valves (also known as the mitral and tricuspid valves) via the chordae tendineae and contract to prevent inversion or prolapse of these valves on systole...

condition is usually seen in fetuses and infants. Mitral stenosis refers to mitral valve leaflets (or valve flaps) sticking to each other making the opening...

in the correction of an uncomplicated mitral Commissurotomy of heart valves is called a valvulotomy. Mitral valve repair is mainly used to treat stenosis...

stenoses in heart valves are: Pulmonary valve stenosis, which is the thickening of the pulmonary valve, therefore causing narrowing Mitral valve stenosis, which...

in the valve or severe functional regurgitation. During open heart surgery for another issue (e.g. mitral valve), fixing the tricuspid valve may be considered...

pumped into the heart ventricles through the atrioventricular mitral and tricuspid heart valves. There are two atria in the human heart – the left atrium...