Valves

Valves are devices which regulate and control the flow of any fluids such as water, gases, or other liquid mixtures. The valves work by opening or closing various passageways (usually pipes) to control or direct the flow of the fluids. These devices can usually be found and used on different industries such as agriculture, oil and gas, mining, food production, chemical manufacturing, and many more. Valves vary differently and can also be classified into different types. These types of valves are

Valve Corporation or former name called Valve Software is a video game development and it also a digital distribution private company in America. The founder of Valve Corporation was Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington, this company was found in Kirkland, Washington, U.S in 24th August 1996. Valve was found by these two person also formerly long-time employees in Microsoft, their debut game was Half Life and this game have been awarded more than 50 times the “Game of the Year” and even in this days this

Mitral Valve Prolapse Human Anatomy and Physiology II Kristen Ammen The mitral valve is located on the left side of the heart between the left atrium and left ventricle. The purpose of the mitral valve is to form a seal between these two chambers of the heart to prevent the back flow of blood. When blood enters the left side of the heart, it is oxygenated and enters through the pulmonary veins. The blood then travels through the left atrium; the bicuspid (mitral) valve then opens to let the

Mitral Valve Prolapse Michele Tolliver Body Systems, LRC Class #1 October 7, 2014 The flow of blood through the heart is controlled by four valves. If any are not working correctly, blood cannot flow or be pumped effectively to the heart. The four valves are: the tricuspid, pulmonary semilunar, mitral, and aortic semilunar. There are many abnormalities or defects that can affect their operation and in this paper, I will discuss the most common one which is a “mitral valve prolapse.” A valvular

Mitral Valve Prolapse Clinical Mitral valve prolapse (MVP) was first characterized by Barlow and Bosman in the 1960s.(Barlow and Bosman) It was first called Barlow’s Syndrome before being called mitral valve prolapse by Criley (Barlow and Bosman),(Criley et al.). Barlow’s syndrome was diagnosed by electrocardiogram, phonocardiogram and chest X-ray.3 The mitral valve apparatus includes tow leaflets, chordae tendineae, anulus, left atrium, papillary muscles and left ventricular wall (Devereux

The History of Valve Software The story of Valve Software is a story of two men with a dream. Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington joined with Microsoft in the early days of the company designing the earliest Windows operating systems, and after thirteen years with them had become what were known as “Microsoft Millionaires.” Both men enjoyed playing video games and inspired by a friend who left Microsoft to join game development studio ID Software, they decided to leave their lucrative positions at

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Biofluid Mechanics St. Jude Medical Bileaflet valve Defects in the valves of a heart can lead to regurgitation, and stenosis. Common symptoms include angina, shortness of breaths and heart failure. These defects affect the heart functionality. As a result, artificial heart valves are used to replace these defective valves. One artificial heart valve is the St. Jude Bileaflet valve. Long-term studies have indicated that the St. Jude Medical mechanical heart valves demonstrates consistent hemodynamic (flow

Mechanical valves are manufactures from artificial materials and constant of combination of metal alloys, paralytic carbon, and Dacron. (Lewis et al, pg 825). The one of the main advantage of mechanical valves is that they will last a patient’s lifetime. Mechanical valves are builds to last as the patients with life expectancies beyond 10-15 years. In addition, they eliminate the mortality risk inherent in the replacement of a worn out tissue valve. “The best mechanical valves, such as the On-X valve, have

COMPLICATIONS OF TAVR The Valve Academic Research Consortium (VARC) is an organization that overlooks the TAVR trials and has met twice in San Francisco and Amsterdam and proposed a standardized endpoints for the TAVR clinical trials.58,59 The purpose was to standardize post-operative complications of TAVR such as myocardial infarction, stroke, bleeding complications, acute kidney injury, vascular complications, prosthetic valve performance, other complications related to prosthetic valve, and mortality. Other