Aortic valve Sentence Examples
Enlargement of the aorta can cause disturbance in the function of the aorta valve (leaky aortic valve ).
Her cardiac history included a myocardial infarct 5 years previously, mixed aortic valve disease, hypertension and rheumatic fever in childhood.
We have placed these in three categories; coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG ), aortic valve replacement (AVR) and other.
The coronary arteries come out of the aorta just after the last heart valve (the aortic valve ).
We have placed these in three categories; coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), aortic valve replacement (AVR) and other.
An aortic aneurysm is an abnormal bulging of part of the aorta that may cause blood to leak through the aortic valve and flow the wrong direction.
The most common surgical treatment involves replacing the child's aortic valve and several inches of the aorta itself with a composite graft, which is a prosthetic heart valve sewn into one end of a Dacron tube.
About 85 percent of all children and adults with COA have a double aortic valve (bicuspid aortic valve) in the heart.
The most common obstruction defects are pulmonary valve stenosis, aortic valve stenosis, and coarctation of the aorta.
In aortic stenosis, the improperly formed aortic valve is narrowed.
AdvertisementBicuspid aortic valve and subaortic stenosis are less common obstruction defects.
A bicuspid aortic valve has only two flaps instead of three, which can lead to stenosis in adulthood.
Subaortic stenosis is a narrowing of the left ventricle below the aortic valve that limits the flow of blood from the left ventricle.
Defects such as coarctation of the aorta and aortic valve stenosis have the greatest risk of occurring in the child's offspring.
A catheter is passed through the needle across the fetus's aortic valve.
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