Patient was educated regarding normal functioning of aortic valve as follows:
- Aortic valve is the valve on the left side of heart, between left ventricle and the aorta.
- Aortic valve opens when the left ventricle contracts, allowing oxygenated blood from the left ventricle to be pumped into the aorta.
- This oxygenated blood in the aorta gets distributed to all the organs in the body through the general circulation.
- Aortic valve closes when the left ventricle relaxes and gets filled with blood from left atrium.
- Complete closure of aortic valve prevents any back flow of blood from the aorta into left ventricle.
- Thus, a normally functioning aortic valve acts as a gateway, permitting only one-way flow of blood, from the left ventricle into the aorta, but not in the reverse direction.
