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Cardiovascular Diseases > Heart Diseases > Heart Valve Diseases > Mitral Valve Insufficiency

Preferred term

Mitral Valve Insufficiency  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Incompetence, Mitral
  • Incompetence, Mitral Valve
  • Insufficiency, Mitral
  • Mitral Incompetence
  • Mitral Insufficiency
  • Mitral Regurgitation
  • Mitral Valve Incompetence
  • Mitral Valve Regurgitation
  • Regurgitation, Mitral
  • Regurgitation, Mitral Valve
  • Valve Incompetence, Mitral
  • Valve Regurgitation, Mitral

Scope note

  • 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.

History note

  • 67; was MITRAL INSUFFICIENCY 1963-66

In other languages

  • hiippaläpän vuoto

    Finnish

  • hiippaläppäinsuffisienssi
  • hiippaläppävuoto
  • insufficientia valvae mitralis
  • insufficientia valvae mitralis non rheumatica
  • MI
  • mitraali-insuffisienssi
  • mitraaliläppävuoto
  • mitraaliläpän insuffisienssi
  • mitraaliläpän vuoto
  • mitraalivuoto
  • mitralisinsufficiens
  • Mitralklaffinsufficiens

    Swedish

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D008944

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