MRCP UK EXAMINATIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -The tricuspid valve is made of three thin but strong flaps of tissue. They’re called leaflets or cusps.

Detailed explanation-2: -The valves prevent the backward flow of blood. Valves are actually flaps (leaflets) that act as one-way inlets for blood coming into a ventricle and one-way outlets for blood leaving a ventricle. Normal valves have 3 flaps (leaflets), except the mitral valve. It only has 2 flaps.

Detailed explanation-3: -The native human heart valve leaflet contains a layered microstructure comprising a hierarchical arrangement of collagen, elastin, proteoglycans and various cell types.

Detailed explanation-4: -The aortic valve has also been called the left semilunar valve and the left arterial valve and has three leaflets, or cusps: the left coronary cusp, the right coronary cusp, and the non-coronary cusp.