valvular heart disease
Noun
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Heart disease caused by stenosis of the cardiac valves and obstructed blood flow or caused by degeneration and blood regurgitation (synset 114135948)
is a type of: cardiopathy, heart disease - a disease of the heartsubtypes:
- aortic stenosis - abnormal narrowing of the aortic valve
- mitral valve prolapse - cardiopathy resulting from the mitral valve not regulating the flow of blood between the left atrium and left ventricle of the heart
- mitral stenosis, mitral valve stenosis - obstruction or narrowing of the mitral valve (as by scarring from rheumatic fever)
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