mitral stenosis

American  

noun

Pathology.

1. abnormal narrowing of the mitral valve usually resulting from disease, as rheumatic fever, and obstructing the free flow of blood from the atrium to the ventricle.

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Etymology

Origin of mitral stenosis

First recorded in 1870–75

Example Sentences

The ultrasound revealed that the patient was suffering from mitral stenosis, a heart disease that, if untreated, is fatal for 50–60 percent of affected pregnant women, with the risk rising with each pregnancy.

From Slate • Jun. 22, 2018

As with mitral stenosis, the most frequent causes are rheumatism and chorea, with the occasional other causes as previously enumerated.

From Disturbances of the Heart by Osborne, Oliver T. (Oliver Thomas)

Such increased pressure in the veins is due, for example, to cirrhosis of the liver which affects the portal circulation, or to mitral stenosis which affects the pulmonary veins.

From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Warfield, Louis Marshall

Such irregularity perhaps most frequently occurs with valvular disease, especially mitral stenosis and in the muscular degenerations of senility, as fibrosis.

From Disturbances of the Heart by Osborne, Oliver T. (Oliver Thomas)

Auricular fibrillation may occur in hearts which are suffering from valvular lesions, especially mitral stenosis, and may occur in syphilitic hearts, in various sclerotic conditions of the heart, and in hyperthyroidism.

From Disturbances of the Heart by Osborne, Oliver T. (Oliver Thomas)