John M.'s Posts

Greetings Adam. I fully appreciate the value of your blog. I've just watched a short presentation involving Dr. Martin's discussion of the aortic valve. Partly because of some other discussions I've listened to, and partly because of a heart diagram that you are familiar with, I have become quite disappointed with presentations of either mitral valve or aortic valve, without discussing the potential gradient overload damage caused to the mitral valve by a stenotic aortic valve. This concept is obvious to any engineer with even minimum familiarity with hydraulics. These are both critical components of the left ventricle structure. I would like to see more comment on how both aortic and mitral valves are so closely related. Regards, John Berner (763) 242-7721