Mitral Valve Insufficiency
"Mitral Valve Insufficiency" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
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.
| Descriptor ID |
D008944
|
| MeSH Number(s) |
C14.280.484.461
|
| Concept/Terms |
Mitral Valve Insufficiency- Mitral Valve Insufficiency
- Insufficiency, Mitral Valve
- Valve Insufficiency, Mitral
- Mitral Valve Regurgitation
- Regurgitation, Mitral Valve
- Valve Regurgitation, Mitral
- Mitral Regurgitation
- Regurgitation, Mitral
- Mitral Valve Incompetence
- Incompetence, Mitral Valve
- Valve Incompetence, Mitral
- Mitral Incompetence
- Incompetence, Mitral
- Mitral Insufficiency
- Insufficiency, Mitral
|
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Mitral Valve Insufficiency".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Mitral Valve Insufficiency".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Mitral Valve Insufficiency" by people in this website by year, and whether "Mitral Valve Insufficiency" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
To see the data from this visualization as text,
click here.
| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
|---|
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
To return to the timeline,
click here.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Mitral Valve Insufficiency" by people in Profiles.
-
Baseline Functional Capacity and Transcatheter Mitral Valve Repair in Heart Failure With Secondary Mitral Regurgitation. JACC Cardiovasc Interv. 2020 10 26; 13(20):2331-2341.
-
Mitral valve prolapse and sudden cardiac arrest in the community. Heart Rhythm. 2016 Feb; 13(2):498-503.
-
Mitral regurgitation after myocardial infarction: a review. Am J Med. 2006 Feb; 119(2):103-12.
-
Heart failure and death after myocardial infarction in the community: the emerging role of mitral regurgitation. Circulation. 2005 Jan 25; 111(3):295-301.