Heart valve surgery is a procedure to treat heart valve disease, which happens when at least one of the four heart valves is not working properly. However, many aspects of heart valve surgery may ...
This action suggests a fluid dynamic control mechanism which positions the cusps away from the wall of the aorta, so that the slightest reversed flow will close the valve.
Your heart's four valves keep blood moving in the right direction, but a poorly working valve causes abnormal blood flow in your heart. With valvular heart disease, the heart works too hard ...
The four heart valves – pulmonary and tricuspid on the right, and aortic and mitral on the left of the heart – control the blood flow. Heart valve disease is when one or more do not work as ...
2006;9(10):691-696. The following sections present information about the most commonly implanted (contemporary) mechanical and bioprosthetic heart valves. The intent is to familiarize the reader ...