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MITRAL
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or relating to or located in or near the mitral valve
Example:
mitral insufficiency
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
mitral valve (valve with two cusps; situated between the left atrium and the left ventricle)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Relating to or resembling the miter worn by some clerics
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
miter (a liturgical headdress worn by bishops on formal occasions)
Derivation:
miter (a liturgical headdress worn by bishops on formal occasions)
Context examples:
Prolapse of the mitral valve, often with regurgitation, associated with myxomatous proliferation of the leaflets of the mitral valve.
(Mitral Valve Prolapse, Food and Drug Administration)
Dysfunction of the mitral valve characterized by incomplete valve closure.
(Mitral Valve Insufficiency, NCI Thesaurus)
A congenital defect where the valve (mitral) which connects the two chambers on the left side of the heart (atrium and ventricle) is closed off.
(Mitral Valve Atresia, NICHD)
These abnormalities can include defects in the lower part of the atrial septum and the ventricular septum and lack of separation of the mitral and tricuspid valves.
(Atrioventricular Septal Defect, NCI Thesaurus)
A congenital heart defect characterized by the complete atresia of the mitral valve.
(Mitral Valve Atresia, NCI Thesaurus)
Surgery performed with the purpose of replacing a degenerated, calcified, malformed, dysfunctional, etc. mitral valve with bioprosthetic, homograft or autograft valve.
(Mitral Valve Replacement, NCI Thesaurus)
The backward flow of blood from the left ventricle into the left atrium, owing to insufficiency of the mitral valve; it may be acute or chronic, usually due to mitral valve prolapse, rheumatic heart disease or a complication of cardiac dilatation.
(Mitral Valve Regurgitation, NCI Thesaurus)
If they don't, you could have: • Regurgitation - when blood leaks back through the valve in the wrong direction • Mitral valve prolapse - when one of the valves, the mitral valve, has floppy flaps and doesn't close tightly • Stenosis - when the valve doesn't open enough and blocks blood flow
(Heart Valve Diseases, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
High risk features includes at least one of the following: history of accelerating tempo of ischemic symptoms in preceding 48 hours; character of pain - prolonged ongoing (greater than 20 minutes) rest pain; clincal findings - pulmonary edema, most likely due to ischemia or new or worsening mitral regurgitation murmur; or S3 or new worsening rales or Hypotension, bradycardia, tachycardia or age greater than 75 years; ECG - angina at rest with transient ST-segment changes greater than 0.5 mm or bundle-branch block, new or presumed new or sustained ventricular tachycardia; cardiac markers - NSTEMI patients with elevated cardiac TnT, Tnl, or CK-MB.
(Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for High Risk Non-ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction or Unstable Angina, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)
Mitral valve prolapse (MVP) occurs when one of your heart's valves doesn't work properly.
(Mitral Valve Prolapse, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
