Word Finder - mitral

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Pertaining to a mitre; resembling a mitre.

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The mitral valve was named for a fancied resemblance to a bishop's mitre.

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Pertaining to the mitral valve.

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Treatments for mitral insufficiency include antihypertensives and valvular surgery; today the latter is often minimally invasive and even totally endoscopic.

Late manifestations may include angina pectoris, myocardial ischemia, myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure and severe mitral regurgitation.

She is pleased with how he is doing and the mitral valve leakage has not changed.

Mitral valve stenosis and mitral valve regurgitation are the most significant and frequent causes of valve dysfunction in the mitral valve stenosis and mitral valve regurgitation are the most significant and frequent causes of valve dysfunction in the mitral position in the heart.

Patients with fragile X syndrome are also at increased risk of developing mitral valve prolapse, which may be causing his breathlessness.

Excluded were patients with mitral stenosis, artificial valves or heart transplant.

Tritace should not be used in patients with aortic or mitral valve stenosis or outflow obstruction (see Precautions section below ).

He had surgery on May 3, 2001, to correct a hole in the atrium and a cleft in his mitral valve.

Tritace should not be used in patients with aortic or mitral valve stenosis or outflow obstruction (see Precautions section below).

An echocardiogram can also detect inheritable conditions such as cardiomyopathy and mitral valve prolapse.

Between 75 and 85% of children with Marfan have loose or "floppy" mitral valves, which are the valves that separate the chambers of the heart.

When these valves do not cover the opening between the chambers completely, the condition is called mitral valve prolapse.

Complications of mitral valve prolapse include heart murmurs and arrhythmias.

In rare cases, mitral valve prolapse can cause sudden death.

In children with Marfan, it is the abnormal mitral valve that is most likely to become infected.

Atrioventricular canal defect (also called endocardial cushion defect or atrioventricular septal defect) is a large hole in the septum, accompanied by abnormal tricuspid and mitral valves that are not formed as individual valves.

Some children develop a curvature in the spine, flat feet, and a heart condition known as mitral valve prolapse.

About 50 percent of affected individuals develop mitral valve prolapse, a heart condition, as adults.

Mitral valve prolapse may be detected as a heart murmur but there are usually no symptoms.

B12 supplementation may exacerbate the symptoms of mitral valve prolapse.

Two or three membranous flaps, held by numerous chordae tendineae, form a true mitral valve, and allow the blood to pass through the left ostium atrioventriculare.

Mitral valve prolapse-A heart defect in which the mitral valve of the heart (which normally controls blood flow from the left atrium to the left ventricle) becomes floppy.