 Mitral Valve Insufficiency
"Mitral Valve Insufficiency" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Backflow of blood from the LEFT VENTRICLE into the LEFT ATRIUM due to imperfect closure of the MITRAL VALVE. This can lead to mitral valve regurgitation.
| Descriptor ID |
D008944
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C14.280.484.461
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| Concept/Terms |
Mitral Valve Insufficiency- Mitral Valve Insufficiency
- Insufficiency, Mitral Valve
- Valve Insufficiency, Mitral
- Mitral Valve Regurgitation
- Regurgitation, Mitral Valve
- Valve Regurgitation, Mitral
- Mitral Regurgitation
- Regurgitation, Mitral
- Mitral Valve Incompetence
- Incompetence, Mitral Valve
- Valve Incompetence, Mitral
- Mitral Incompetence
- Incompetence, Mitral
- Mitral Insufficiency
- Insufficiency, Mitral
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| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Mitral Valve Insufficiency" by people in Profiles.
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Printz BF, Sleeper LA, Newburger JW, Minich LL, Bradley T, Cohen MS, Frank D, Li JS, Margossian R, Shirali G, Takahashi M, Colan SD. Noncoronary cardiac abnormalities are associated with coronary artery dilation and with laboratory inflammatory markers in acute Kawasaki disease. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2011 Jan 04; 57(1):86-92.
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