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What is the other name for the mitral and tricuspid valves?
The mitral and the tricuspid valves, also known as the atrioventricular valves, are located between the top chambers of the heart, the atria, and the lower chambers of the heart, the ventricles.
What is another name for the mitral valve?
The mitral valve is also known as the bicuspid valve. This is one of the heart’s four valves that help prevent blood from flowing backward as it moves through the heart.
Is the tricuspid valve the same as the mitral valve?
The mitral valve is located on the left side of the heart, between the left atrium and the left ventricle. This valve has two leaflets that allow blood to flow from the lungs to the heart. The tricuspid valve is located on the right side of the heart, between the right atrium and the right ventricle.
What are the names of the tricuspid valve leaflets?
The leaflets The valve consists of three leaflets, named after their positions: anterior, posterior and septal [Figure 2].
Why is it called tricuspid and bicuspid?
The right atrioventricular valve has three cusps, and is therefore called the tricuspid valve, while the left atrioventricular valve has two cusps, and is known as the bicuspid or mitral valve – mitral because it is said to resemble a bishops mitre.
Is the aortic valve tricuspid?
Typically the aortic valve has three cusps (tricuspid aortic valve), but some people are born with an aortic valve that has two cusps (bicuspid aortic valve).
What is the tricuspid annulus?
The tricuspid annulus forms the boundary between the tricuspid valve leaflets and their surrounding perivalvular tissue of the right atrioventricular junction. Its shape changes throughout the cardiac cycle in response to the forces from the contracting right heart myocardium and the blood-valve interaction.
Is the pulmonary valve tricuspid?
The heart has four valves that control the flow of blood to the heart: the aortic, mitral, tricuspid and pulmonic (also called pulmonary) valves. The tricuspid valve lies between the right atrium and the right ventricle. The pulmonic valve is located between the right ventricle and the pulmonary artery.