{"id":366,"date":"2008-03-30T22:51:51","date_gmt":"2008-03-31T03:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2008\/03\/30\/four-heart-valves\/"},"modified":"2019-02-26T22:36:41","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T03:36:41","slug":"four-heart-valves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2008\/03\/30\/four-heart-valves\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Heart Valves &#8211; How Do They Open And Close?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, I posted a blog about what <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2008\/03\/21\/what-do-normal-heart-valves-look-like\/\">normal heart valves look like<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Well&#8230; Here&#8217;s a quick, interesting follow-up to that story about each of the <strong>four heart valves<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>I was just on Youtube.com and came across a very neat video which shows each of the four heart valves opening and closing within during heartbeats &#8211; the aortic valve, the mitral valve, the tricuspid valve and the pulmonary valve.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe data-src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SKTghwENfmU\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It&#8217;s a pretty fascinating video that shows not one but each of <em>the four heart valves<\/em>, so I thought I would share the link.<\/p>\n<p>I hope this helps better explain how the four heart valves open and close.<\/p>\n<p>Keep on tickin!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adams-updates"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}