AW: [HSF] Re: Post op antibiotics, double gloving

[psimha]

"the muscular  annulus squeezes like a sphincter while the base of the anterior leaflet bulges  
towards it during systole."
- Yes , it is absolutely obvious if you put a finger through it.I will always cherish the experience of intracardiac palpation.As a surrogate I usually make my students palpate the mitral valve and pulmonary veins trans ASD and als the tricuspid valve  when they do their initial ASD's.
Prasanna



Rwmfglycar at aol.com wrote:
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> In a message dated 10/3/2007 5:07:18 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
> prasannasimha at gmail.com writes:
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> Anyway  feeling the mitral valve beating is something  unforgettablw.
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> You had me in splits too Prasanna.
> Feeling the mitral valve in action is indeed unforgettable. My first  
> experience was in a normal dog in 1959. It is still a crystal clear memory. This  
> brings up the issue of epistemology that Tea brings us back to all the time. In  
> a funny way that experience interfered with my research. When somebody  would 
> say what proof is there that the annulus participates in the function of  the 
> mitral valve, my answer was it is absolutely obvious that the muscular  
> annulus squeezes like a sphincter while the base of the anterior leaflet bulges  
> towards it during systole. "Absolutely obvious" does not fly in academia.
> Bob
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