{"id":342,"date":"2021-12-14T16:18:59","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T16:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pbcardiovascular.com\/site\/?p=342"},"modified":"2021-12-14T16:18:59","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T16:18:59","slug":"what-is-mitral-valve-prolapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pbcardiovascular.com\/site\/what-is-mitral-valve-prolapse\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Mitral Valve Prolapse?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The mitral valve controls the flow of blood into the left ventricle. Normally, when the left ventricle contracts, the mitral valve closes and the blood flows out through the aortic valve. In mitral valve prolapse, the shape or dimensions of the leaflets of the valve are not ideal &#8211; they may be too large and fail to close properly or balloon out &#8211; hence the term &#8220;prolapse&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-343\" src=\"https:\/\/pbcardiovascular.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/hri-2021-06-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pbcardiovascular.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/hri-2021-06-01.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/pbcardiovascular.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/hri-2021-06-01-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pbcardiovascular.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/hri-2021-06-01-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pbcardiovascular.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/hri-2021-06-01-768x402.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mitral valve controls the flow of blood into the left ventricle. Normally, when the left ventricle contracts, the mitral valve closes and the blood flows out through the aortic valve. In mitral valve prolapse, the shape or dimensions of the leaflets of the valve are not ideal &#8211; they may be too large and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conditions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pbcardiovascular.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pbcardiovascular.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pbcardiovascular.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pbcardiovascular.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pbcardiovascular.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pbcardiovascular.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344,"href":"https:\/\/pbcardiovascular.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions\/344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pbcardiovascular.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pbcardiovascular.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pbcardiovascular.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pbcardiovascular.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}