Heart valve research

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Heart valve research

• Four heart valve
• Tricuspid (from right atrium to right ventricle)
• Pulmonic (from right ventricle to lungs)
• Mitral (from left atrium to left ventricle)
• Aortic (from left ventricle to upper and lower
  body)
• We are studying the Tricuspid, Mitral, and Aortic

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What causes heart valve disease?

• Narrowed valves
• congenital abnormality
• degeneration through atherosclerosis
• damage from rheumatic fever
• excessive calcification in old age
• Leaking valves
• bacterial infection or inflammation of a valve
• excessive floppiness of the leaflets
• enlargement of the heart or aorta

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Mechanics of the mitral valve
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Mechanics of the mitral valve
Einstein DR, Kunzelman K, Reinhall PG, Nicosia
M, Cochran RP,