NOUN
- a semilunar valve between the left ventricle and the aorta; prevents blood from flowing from the aorta back into the heart
How To Use aortic valve In A Sentence
- Causes of dissection include hypertension, Marfan's syndrome, trauma, Ehler's Danlos, coarctation, bicuspid aortic valve and relapsing polychondritis.
- In his youth, my father had caught a terrible disease: streptococcal arthritis, ending in irreversible lesions in the aortic valves. Luc Montagnier - Autobiography
- The overwhelming cause of aortic valve disease in Europe is calcific degenerative disease, and about 2% of the population have congenitally bicuspid aortic valves.
- Subaortic and supravalvar stenosis do not get better with balloon dilation, and will require surgery if the amount of obstruction is moderate or severe, or, with subaortic stenosis, the aortic valve begins to leak significantly. Aortic Stenosis
- Early Antithrombotic Therapy for Aortic Valve Bioprostheses: Is There an Indication for Routine Use?
- Persons born with a bicuspid aortic valve are predisposed to develop aortic stenosis.
- Extraarticular locations for tophus formation included myocardium, pericardium, aortic valves, and extradural spinal regions.
- The aortic valve, which separates the left ventricle and the aorta, is too small or completely closed (atretic). Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS)
- Could we administer a satin as an agent that slows the progression a stenotic aortic valve?
- All visible regions of the thoracic aorta were fully explored in every patient, including the proximal ascending aorta beginning at the aortic valve.