Glossary

Flow without turbulence, e.g. laminar flow pattern through aortic valve (during ultrasound examination); opposite of turbulent flow (turbulance)

Surgical procedure named after a French heart surgeon, used during the arterial switch

E.g. in ventricular septal defects. A hole in the cardiac septum allows oxygenated blood to flow from the left to the right ventricle and from there to the lungs

Increase of the size of the walls of the left ventricle usually caused by the pressure of hypertension; can lead to cardiac insufficiency.

See cardiac catherterisation

Operative constriction or compression of vessels

Left ventricular outflow tract; the path taken by the blood from the left ventricle to the aorta

Dissolution of a blood clot (fibrin) using specific anticoagulant proteins