MRCP UK EXAMINATIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -After the left ventricle contracts, the aortic valve closes and the mitral valve opens, to allow blood to flow from the left atrium into the left ventricle.

Detailed explanation-2: -From the left ventricle, the blood flows through the aortic valve to the rest of your body.

Detailed explanation-3: -This blood passes through the bicuspid valve or mitral valve (the atrioventricular valve on the left side of the heart) to the left ventricle where the blood is pumped out through aorta, the major artery of the body, taking oxygenated blood to the organs and muscles of the body.

Detailed explanation-4: -Bicuspid valve prevents the back flow of blood from left ventricle to the left atrium.