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The mitral valve is located between the left atrium (LA) and left ventricle (LV). When oxygenated blood comes from the lungs into the LA, it goes from the LA to the LV (diastole). When the LV contracts (systole), it pumps the blood from the LV to the aorta for circulation throughout the body. The mitral valve prevents blood from going up to the LA when the LV contracts, because all the blood should go to the aorta, not back up to where it came from (LA). The mitral valve shuts when the LV contracts, and reopens when the LV relaxes, to allow for filling of the LV again. In short... the mitral valve prevents blood from going up from the LV to the LA during ventricular contraction.
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What is the medical term meaning backflow of blood through the mitral valve?
The medical term for backflow of blood through the mitral valve is mitral regurgitation.
How do heart attacks affect the mitral valve?
Heart attacks that damage the structures that support the mitral valve are a common cause of mitral valve insufficiency. Myxomatous degeneration can cause a "floppy" mitral valve that leaks.
The mitral valve is closed when?
The mitral valve is closed when the left ventricle is contracting.
2 other names for the bicuspid valve?
The bicuspid valve is also known as the mitral valve or the left atrioventricular valve.
What is the medical term meaning narrowing of the mitral valve?
Mitral stenosis is the medical term meaning narrowing of the mitral valve.
Another name for the left AV valve?
The left atrioventricular valve is also known as the mitral valve.
What is the valve in the heart?
Mitral valve
Abnormal narrowing of the opening of the mitral valve is known as mitral?
Mitral stenosis
Who gets mitral valve stenosis?
Twice as many women as men are affected by mitral valve stenosis. About 60% of patients with mitral valve stenosis have had rheumatic fever.
Located between left upper and lower chambers of the heart?
Mitral valve
Blood flow from the mitral valve to the bicuspid valve?
The mitral and bicuspid valves are the same thing.
A valve in the heart that guards the opening between the left atrium and the left ventricle that prevents the blood in the ventricle from returning to the atrium?
The Mitral valve.
