0 the valve (= a structure that opens and closes) in the heart that stops blood from returning into the left atrium (= upper space) from the left ventricle (= lower space) --
Other abnormalities were: patent ductus arteriosus, septal hypertrophy, mitral valve prolapse and pericardial effusion (one case each).
Since 1991, mitral valve allografts have been used in our institution to replace the mitral valve.
Increasingly, we are debulking the coronary sinus which we feel may be partially obstructive to the mitral valve.
Instead, they represented gross calcification of the mitral valve, and of the papillary muscles, as a consequence of viral myocarditis.
The ventricular septal defect was directly related to the mitral valve.
There was no systolic anterior motion of the mitral valve, but mild prolapse of an aortic leaflet was seen.
There does not appear to be any residual ventricular septal defect but the mitral valve is "masked" by the patch material.
The attachment extended to the left coronary leaflet of the aortic valve, and to the ventricular surface of the aortic leaflet of the mitral valve.
