Talk:Heart valve

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I'm making this more of a disambiguation-type page. Let it give a little insight into what the different valves are, and then point to the specific heart valve and disorders of those valves. That's why I added a lot of related topics at the bottom of the page.

For reasons I cannot explain, leaking of the atrioventricular valves (mitral & tricuspid) is called regurgitation, while leaking of the aortic & pulmonic valves is called insufficiency in the cardiology literature. They mean the same thing, and even sometimes in the literature they mix it up a little. Maybe it's a regional thing???

[edit] Subvalvular apparatus

I think that to describe the sulvalvular apparatus as to have no active part in the workings of the AV-valves is wrong. I think this is demonstrated in the valvular unsufficiency following papillary infarction. I will be back with documentation --Ekko 08:11, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] HEART

my doc said I had a bad valve but he wants to do a heart cat, WHY —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.8.172.233 (talk) 12:51, 3 May 2008 (UTC)