What's the difference between valvelet and valvule?
Valvelet
Definition:
(n.) A little valve; a valvule; especially, one of the pieces which compose the outer covering of a pericarp.
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Valvule
Definition:
(n.) A little valve; a valvelet.
(n.) A small valvelike process.
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(1) This report expands previous descriptions of antiphospholipid syndromes by describing a subset of lupus patients with significant aortic and mitral valvulitis in addition to circulating antiphospholipid antibodies, thrombocytopenia, and recurrent thromboses.
(2) By light microscopy trypanosomes and inflammatory cells were also shown to occur in all four types of heart valves implicating diffuse valvulitis.
(3) The first two patients had a bioprosthetic valvulation and the 5 succeeding patients a St Jude Medical mechanical prosthesis.
(4) Valvules were constantly found, whereas endovenous structures such as those found in the ilio-caval junctions were very rare.
(5) Unlike rheumatic valvulitis, it is not associated with significant permanent morbidity.
(6) MR due to KD is regarded as a new clinical entity, and its pathogenesis is thought to be due to ischemia, papillary muscle dysfunction, coronary angitis, myocardial failure and valvulitis.
(7) Vasculitis with granulomatosis, destructive changes in the intima were found in the supravalvular part of the aorta and at the base of the aortic valve as well as severe fibrinous valvulitis.
(8) There was no evidence of previous rheumatic valvulitis, subacute bacterial endocarditis or other etiologies.
(9) Since rheumatic valvulitis may play a subordinate role, in contrast to etiologies such as myxomatous degeneration of the mitral valve, rupture of chordae tendineae, papillary muscle dysfunction due to coronary artery disease and other causes, left ventricular function is generally determined by the adaptations of the myocardium to the volume overload, or to ischemia or infarction from coronary artery disease rather than to a concomitant myocarditis.
(10) This article reports the surface structure of the endothelial cells covering the cardiac valves and their changes in chronic inactive rheumatic valvulitis and bacterial endocarditis.
(11) This report describes the 48 arteriolar and capillary sized V, Aschoff nodules, valvulitis, and myocytolytic lesions in the heart and great vessels in 18 of 100 human vitreous VM containing eyelid inoculated mice versus 0 of 200 controls (P less than 0.05) plus VM within parasitized leucocytes in 15 of 15 of those lesions by TEM.
(12) One patient developed classic ARF with valvulitis 18 months after the initial episode.
(13) Among more than 50% of arthritic rabbits, immunological lesions of aortic artery and cardiac valvules are found.
(14) Given a less significant set-back, it has been suggested that restorative surgery of the deep venous network, valve repair or insertion of a valvulated section, should be used in the treatment of post-phlebitic illness.
(15) In one of these it was due to rheumatoid granulomatous valve disease and in the other due to non-specific aortic valvulitis.
(16) The elevated antibody level in patients with rheumatic valvulitis, including patients with Sydenham's chorea with valvulitis, persisted for periods of at least 1 yr and up to 20 yr after the last acute attack.
(17) Myocarditis, coagulation necrosis, lesion of the conduction system, pericarditis, and endocarditis with valvulitis were also present.
(18) Pure mitral regurgitation, present in 269 patients (52%), was the most common lesion while rheumatic valvulitis, seen in 286 patients (55%), was the most common etiology.
(19) Two patients with a unique aortic valvulitis required aortic valve replacement.
(20) In the walls of individual segments of the cardiac draining system the authors observed collagenization, and in myocardial small veins, reduction of venous valvules.