The heart valve consists of four valves that is the aortic valve, mitral valve, pulmonary valve and tricuspid valve where these four heart valves make sure that the oxygen-rich blood flows in the ...

All were considered to have rheumatic valvular disease except for 1 patient with mitral regurgitation secondary to ruptured chordae tendinae. Aortic-valve disease severe enough to require ...

mitral, and tricuspid valves. A heart murmur can occur when one of these valves does not function properly. The aortic valve sits between the left ventricle (the heart's lower left chamber ...

Rheumatic valvular disease is responsible for aortic stenosis on occasion. In this setting, concurrent disease of the mitral valve is almost always present. At least some aortic regurgitation ...

Large and rare duplications and deletions in a chromosome region known as 22q11.2 , which involves genes that regulate ...