The causes of heart valve problems include infections such as rheumatic fever, congenital heart disease, high blood pressure, coronary artery disease, or as a result of a heart attack. Diseases of the heart valves include: Endocarditis.This is an infection that's usually caused by bacteria, whic...
Heart Diseases generally refers to conditions that involve narrowed or blocked blood vessels that can lead to a heart attack, chest pain (angina) or stroke.
Characteristics and types of artificial heart valvesDaurova, T TBykov, G ARozanova, I B
3. Heart disease affecting heart valves These type heart diseases occur when the mitral valve in the heart is narrowing causing the heart to work harder to pump blood from the left atrium into the ventricle. The mitral valve does not close properly and prolapse occurs or narrowing of the aort...
Other forms of heart disease can be caused by weak heart muscle, heart infections, or diseases of the heart valves. How is heart disease diganosed? Five symptoms can indicate when someone is having a heart attack and requires immediate emergency care, calling 911. These include pain in the ...
Cardiovascular diseaseis a group of conditions that affect your heart and blood vessels. It's sometimes also called heart disease. Conditions that affect your heart and blood vessels can include problems you're born with, heart valves that don't work they way they should, and irregular heart ...
Types of heart defects are often grouped by what part of the heart they affect. These would include defects of the heart valves, the septum, the interior valves of the heart, or the ventricles. Other types of heart defects combine several defects at once or have to do with the way the ...
the wall of a vein is much thinner them that of an artery because the middle layer of muscle and elastic fibers is thinner. Within some veins, valves allow blood to flow only toward the heart when they are open and prevent the backward flow of blood when they are closed....
The heart valves include the pulmonary, aortic, tricuspid, and mitral valves. The tricuspid and mitral valves are located inside of the heart between ventricles and atria (right and left respectively), and the pulmonary and aortic valves are located right outside the heart. Diseases involving thes...
They include the replacement of damaged blood vessels with simulated ones made of plastic; the replacement of heart valves, the transplanting of tissues such as the lens of the eye and the lung machined to keep patients alive during long operations. All these things open a hopeful vista for ...