What's the difference between valvar and valvular?
Valvar
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The purpose of this paper was to examine valvar involvement in patients with intracardiac masses.
(2) Valvar and valvar-subvalvar pulmonic outflow obstructions may be suggested by echocardiography.
(3) We present the case of a 49-year-old patient with aneurysm of the ascending aorta as well as mitral and aortic valvar insufficiency treated surgically.
(4) This percentage was significantly lower in separated subgroups of: a. arterial hypertension, 6.6 and 10.2, b. cardio-pulmonary syndrome, 23.0 and 18.5, c. healed myocardial infarct accompanied by myocardial hypertrophy, 13.3 and 11.7, d. acquired valvar deformity, 15.3 and 10.1.
(5) The specimens were divided according to the type of pulmonary atresia: valvar atresia (12 cases) versus "muscular" atresia of the pulmonary orifice (29 cases).
(6) The mitral valvar area between 0.50 and 1.80 (mean = 1.19) cm2.
(7) To evaluate the hemodynamic factors associated with treadmill-induced ST-segment depression in children with valvar aortic stenosis, 12 patients (mean age 13 years) with ST-segment depression during treadmill exercise and 5 patients (mean age 13 years) without ST-segment depression during treadmill exercise underwent exercise testing during cardiac catheterization.
(8) Thus, cross-sectional echocardiography coupled with a range-gated Doppler system provide accurate anatomical details of the atrioventricular junction and reliable assessment of atrioventricular valvar regurgitation in patients with univentricular atrioventricular connexion.
(9) To compare balloon valvuloplasty and surgical valvulotomy in the management of pulmonary valvar stenosis.
(10) Hepatomegaly and ascites sould not be attributed too readily to advancing malignant disease without careful consideration of the role of right-sided valvar lesions in the production of these signs.
(11) A number of enzyme activities concerned with various catabolic pathways have been measured in biopsy specimens of the left ventricle in patients with congestive cardiomyopathy and compared with those in patients undergoing surgery for valvar or congenital heart disease.
(12) Our series includes the first 19 consecutive patients with pulmonary valvar stenosis who underwent balloon valvuloplasty in our hospital.
(13) The valvar and annular changes occurring during dilatation were examined visually.
(14) Thus, there was a high prevalence of cardiac abnormalities, especially pericardial and valvar lesions, in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus.
(15) Thirty-two patients with isolated valvar pulmonary stenosis (21 male; 11 female, age range 4 to 53 years, mean 14 years) underwent cardiac catheterization and balloon valvoplasty.
(16) Trabeculotomy after Grusha and Sokolovskiĭ was made in 10 eyes, valvar trabeculotomy after Nesterov--in 17 eyes.
(17) In this report, a case of successful cardiac valvar surgical intervention has resulted in prolonged alleviation of cardiac symptoms and survival.
(18) Abnormal attachment of the right portion of the common valvar orifice was present in 2 cases.
(19) Noninvasive studies revealed an aortico-left ventricular tunnel and severe valvar aortic stenosis.
(20) The disease is characterised by opacification of the cornea, hepatospenomegaly, carpal tunnel syndrome, flexion contractures of the fingers and toes, valvar heart disease, normal intelligence and essentially normal behaviour.
Valvular
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a valve or valves; specifically (Med.), of or pertaining to the valves of the heart; as, valvular disease.
(a.) Containing valves; serving as a valve; opening by valves; valvate; as, a valvular capsule.
Example Sentences:
(1) Valvular stenoses of the bronchi and especially of the bronchioles in various types of primary pulmonary disease are of considerable importance etiologically.
(2) Twenty-nine patients had a marked organic tricuspid valvular disease.
(3) The authors conclude that there is no heart rate-dependent signal loss in healthy persons that simulates valvular dysfunction, thus suggesting that signal intensity change can be used as an indicator for this disease, independent of heart rate.
(4) BPV provides long-term relief of pulmonary valvular obstruction in the majority of patients.
(5) 107 patients at the age of 80 years or more were operated for coronary or valvular heart disease between 1978 and 1984.
(6) At stage 23, the heart presents a complete atrioventricular valvular structure.
(7) Similar studies in patients with valvular disease indicate that phase mapping is also valid for pathologic conditions.
(8) A regimen of a single intramuscular dose of penicillin G-streptomycin was compared with regimens of three oral doses of amoxicillin and two oral doses of penicillin V to prevent Streptococcus sanguis endocarditis in rabbits with experimentally induced valvular heart lesions.
(9) In 11 adult patients with isolated valvular aortic stenosis, the progression of the disease was assessed by two heart catheterisations without intervening aortic valve surgery.
(10) A group of 19 patients (mean age 57 years), 9 with ischemic, 2 amyloidotic, 4 valvular, and 4 idiopathic cardiomyopathy, were treated.
(11) Experience with glutaraldehyde- and glycerol-treated pericardium in valvular applications in sheep support these observations.
(12) Secondary valvular incompetence occurs from deep venous obstruction or increased venous distensibility (usually secondary to circulating estrogens).
(13) Valvular incompetence developed in 13 patients during the study period.
(14) The usefulness of these methods is discussed in patients with acute ischemic heart disease, chronic ischemic heart disease, valvular heart disease, pulmonary vascular disease, and hypertensive heart disease.
(15) Percutaneous catheter balloon valvuloplasty was carried out in 75 patients with valvular pulmonary stenosis (VPS), whose ages ranged from 18 months to 38 years.
(16) One case with embolic cardiac infarction is described, that had developed in a patient with mitral-aortic valvular defect with auricular fibrillation and simultaneous embolic dissemination in the right middle cerebral and superior mesenteric arteries.
(17) The duration of deep venous valvular reflux was studied in 192 venous segments of the legs of 32 patients in good health.
(18) Two patients are described: one with prosthetization in 1982 with aorta prosthesis because of aortic valvular defect and a female patient with lupus eythematodes disseminata and severe organ disorders resulting from that (cardiac, renal, amputation of the left arm).
(19) The echocardiographic study showed the mentioned aortic valvular lesions and did reveal the same lesion in another patient in which the other studies were normal.
(20) Valvular lesions in the acute stage of Kawasaki disease were observed using pulsed Doppler echocardiography.