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heart valve

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heart valve [′härt ‚valv]
(anatomy)
Flaps of tissue that prevent reflux of blood from the ventricles to the atria or from the pulmonary arteries or aorta to the atria.
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quot;Over the past few years, I have been actively monitoring aortic valve defects for patients," notes Adam Pick, a double heart valve surgery patient and author of The Patient''s Guide To Heart Valve Surgery.
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On December 2007 issue of the Anatolian Journal of cardiology, an article entitled "Prevention of calcification with TPEN in pericardial bioprosthetic heart valve material" was published (1).
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Occasionally, these valves can be damaged and the individual could suffer from some sort of heart valve disease.
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