Take a trip inside the heart !
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🎦Here’s a great video of the cardiac structures visualized from within the heart. .
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The heart is composed of 4 major valves
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♦️The AV valves: Mitral and Tricuspid
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🔹The Semilunar Valves: Aortic and Pulmonic .
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💞The aortic valve is made up of three major cusps: the right, left, and non coronary cusps. The pulmonic valve is made up of the right, left, and anterior cusps. The mitral valve has two leaflets: the anterior and posterior leaflets. The tricuspid valve has three leaflets: the anterior, posterior, and septal leaflets. The mitral and tricuspid Valves have subvalvular apparatuses with papillary muscles and chordae. .
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📝Keys about the heart valves:
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🔑 they are collagenous, non conductible tissue, that form the fibrous trigone of the heart
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🔑 the tricuspid valve always names the morphological right ventricle and (for the most part) is always apically displaced .
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🔑 the mitral valve is the only AV valve that shares a continuity with a semilunar valve (the mitral- aortic supravalvular fibrosa) .
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🔑 the pulmonic valve is the most anterior valve and aligns with the aortic right and left cusps
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💝What’s your favorite heart valve and why? .
Learn more about cardiology by Dr Boon Lim - Atrial Fibrillation Specialist
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