{"id":398,"date":"2008-04-29T08:37:32","date_gmt":"2008-04-29T13:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2008\/04\/29\/good-mitral-valve-prolapse-diagram-for-dave\/"},"modified":"2018-09-02T16:01:49","modified_gmt":"2018-09-02T21:01:49","slug":"good-mitral-valve-prolapse-diagram-for-dave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2008\/04\/29\/good-mitral-valve-prolapse-diagram-for-dave\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Mitral Valve Prolapse Diagram For Dave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just received a follow-up question from Dave regarding my earlier blog about heart valve prolapse. The question reads, &#8220;Do you have a better mitral valve prolapse diagram? I still don&#8217;t understand the physical problems with a prolapse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for the question Dave! To help you, I just searched the web and found a pretty good diagram that illustrates the key problem with a mitral valve prolapse. Here it is:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Prolapsed Mitral Valve Diagram\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/Images\/mitral%20valve%20prolapse.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"312\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>As you can see above, the valve leaflets do not seal properly (right image) which results in mitral regurgitation (left image) and could lead to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/leaking-heart-valve-symptoms.php\">heart valve leakage symptoms<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to see more images of the heart &#8211; simply click anatomy of the heart or anatomy of the heart valves.<\/p>\n<p>I hope that helps!<\/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":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mitral-regurgitation"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","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=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}