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Heart with stenosis

This specimen shows a section cut through the heart to show the diseased tricuspid, mitral and aortic valves. In valve disease the flaps of the valves become scarred and dysfunctional and this leads to restriction of the blood flow or blood leaking backwards in the heart.

Heart with stenosis
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