Sentences with phrase «aortic valve leaflet»

Inflammatory markers were identified in tissue samples from all disease stages in the aortic valve leaflets.

Makkar began the study when a high - resolution imaging study of one of the patients in a clinical trial who had stroke showed clot formation on the aortic valve leaflets that open and close to regulate the flow of blood.

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The mitral valve between the two left chambers of the heart has two leaflets, or cusps; the tricuspid, pulmonary and aortic valves each have three.

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For unknown reasons, CAVD occurs even more commonly in people born with an abnormality of the aortic valve in which there are only two leaflets instead of three — a cardiac birth defect in 1 % of the population worldwide.

Just as the atria are separated from their corresponding ventricle by AV valves, so too are the ventricles divided from their corresponding arteries by valves known as semi-lunar valves, so - called as their leaflets look like half - moons: the left semi-lunar valve is known as the aortic valve as is separates the left ventricle from the aorta; the right semi-lunar valve is called the pulmonic valve as it separates the right ventricle from the pulmonary artery.

Some people are born with an aortic valve that has two leaflets instead of three, or a bicuspid valve instead of a tricuspid.