Valve Anatomy
This heart valve is located between the left atrium and left ventricle.
What is the mitral (bicuspid) valve?
This valve prevents blood from flowing back into the left ventricle.
What is the aortic valve?
The narrowing of a valve opening that restricts blood flow is called this.
What is valve stenosis?
This imaging test uses sound waves to evaluate heart valve function.
What is an echocardiogram?
The first successful heart valve replacement surgery was performed in this decade.
What is the 1960s?
This valve is located between the right atrium and right ventricle.
What is the tricuspid valve?
The purpose of heart valves is to prevent this from happening.
What is backflow of blood?
When a valve does not close properly, causing blood to leak backward, this condition occurs
What is valve regurgitation
Doctors use this non-invasive test to measure electrical activity of the heart.
What is an electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG)?
This animal’s heart valves are sometimes used in human valve replacements.
What is a pig (porcine valve)?
The semilunar valves prevent backflow into these chambers.
What are the ventricles?
The mitral valve opens to allow blood to flow from the left atrium into this chamber.
What is the left ventricle?
The most common type of valve disorder that affects the mitral valve is called this.
What is mitral valve prolapse?
Severe heart valve disease may require this surgical procedure.
What is valve replacement surgery?
The mitral valve gets its name because it resembles this religious item.
What is a bishop’s mitre (hat)?
The heart has this many total valves.
What is four?
The pulmonary valve prevents blood from flowing back into this chamber.
What is the right ventricle?
Aortic stenosis most commonly affects individuals in this age group.
What are the elderly?
A catheter-based procedure that can repair a stenotic valve without open-heart surgery is called this.
What is balloon valvuloplasty?
The heart valves open and close approximately this many times per day.
What is 100,000?
The flaps of heart valves are also known as these.
What are leaflets or cusps?
The closing of the heart valves produces this well-known sound.W
What is the “lub-dub” sound?
This congenital heart defect involves a missing or improperly formed pulmonary valve.
What is pulmonary atresia?
Mechanical and biological are the two main types of these.
What are artificial heart valves?
The Latin word “valva,” which means this, is where the term “valve” comes from.
What is a folding door?