"leaflet" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Rheumatic fever is an infection that can cause the aortic valve leaflets to stick together, which narrows the opening.
- The narrowed or fused mitral valve leaflets are separated and stretched open as the balloon presses against them.
- The pericardial sac is particularly well suited for a valve leaflet due to its extremely durable physical properties.
- It can also show decreased opening of the mitral valve leaflets, and increased blood flow velocity during diastole.
- Severe mitral regurgitation usually results from a tear in one of the valve leaflets or the subvalvular apparatus.
- In the heart, a commissure is the area where two valve leaflets have abnormally come together.
- Fused valve leaflets are separated to widen the valve opening.
- Through a catheter inserted in the groin, the valve leaflets are clipped together.
- The bacteria also can eat through the valve leaflet, leaving a hole through which blood can leak backward.
- The valve leaflets, however, are to a varying degree, attached to the walls and septum of the right ventricle.
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