A rare form of endocardial cushion defect is an atrioventricular (AV) canal-type ventricular septal defect with cleft mitral ... of the anterior leaflet of the mitral valve to the interventricular ...

Surgical repair of the cleft anterior leaflet without resection of subjacent chordae tendineae, as performed in these patients, usually results in a competent mitral valve. Postoperative angiograms ...

CTA head and neck did not show any large vessel vasculitis. Transthoracic echocardiography showed thickening of the mitral valve (MV) leaflets, with moderate MR and an elevated MV gradient of 11 mm Hg ...

The device is positioned directly above the regurgitant jet and advanced across the mitral valve into the LV, with the two arms of the Clip perpendicular to the valve leaflets.

A Ukrainian government official has told NHK that Kyiv will use leaflets to urge North Korean soldiers in Russia to surrender if they are sent to the frontline to fight against Ukraine. Ukrainian ...

South Korean Officials Block Bid to Send Balloons Carrying Leaflets Into North By Hyunsu Yim PAJU, South Korea (Reuters) - South Korean authorities in a village near the border with North Korea ...

It described them as retaliation for inflatables sent by activists in the South bearing items such as leaflets criticising the North's leaders, bibles and USB sticks loaded with K-pop music videos ...

These are the inlet valves to the two ventricles, the mitral valve on the left side and the tricuspid valve on the right.

Mechanical or tensile stress on the valve leaflets also has been proposed as an important factor in initiation of the disease process. The major evidence for this hypothesis is that calcific disease ...