Anatom3DHeart valves
Valvae cordis · Srdeční chlopně
Heart & arteries
Looks like
Four one-way doors of thin fibrous tissue, two between the chambers and two at the outlets.
What it does
Keep blood going one way, and make the sounds a stethoscope hears.
Keeping it well
Treat strep throat, look after your teeth; a new murmur with breathlessness needs an echo.
Its parts
Related conditions
- 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (DiGeorge)
- Aortic stenosis
- Atrial flutter
- Botulism
- Cardiomyopathy (dilated, restrictive, arrhythmogenic)
- Chagas disease
- Chronic venous insufficiency
- Clotting disorders (thrombophilia & APS)
- Congenital heart defects
- Coronary artery disease
- Deep vein thrombosis
- Diphtheria
- Down syndrome (trisomy 21)
- Eating disorders
- Extra heartbeats (ectopics and palpitations)
- Fainting (syncope)
- Fibromyalgia
- Frailty & falls in older age
- Friedreich's ataxia
- Heart attack
- Heart failure
- Heat exhaustion & heatstroke
- High blood pressure
- High cholesterol
- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- Hypothermia & frostbite
- Infective endocarditis
- Kawasaki disease
- Long QT syndrome
- Malnutrition & refeeding syndrome
- Metabolic syndrome
- Muscular dystrophy
- Myocarditis
- Orthostatic hypotension & POTS
- Panic disorder
- Pericardial effusion & tamponade
- Pericarditis
- Peripheral artery disease
- Phaeochromocytoma & hyperaldosteronism
- Polymyalgia rheumatica
- Pre-eclampsia
- Raynaud's phenomenon
- Rhabdomyolysis
- Rheumatic fever & rheumatic heart disease
- Sarcoma
- Sarcopenia
- Sepsis
- Shock (circulatory failure)
- Sudden cardiac arrest
- Sudden infant death syndrome
- Supraventricular tachycardia
- Takotsubo (stress) cardiomyopathy
- Tetanus
- Tuberous sclerosis complex
- Valve disease (stenosis & regurgitation)
- Varicose veins
- Vasculitis (GCA & others)
- Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome