Mitral valve prolapse and regurgitation. Mitral valve prolapse and regurgitation The mitral valve separates the two chambers (atrium and ventricle) of the left side of the heart. In mitral valve prolapse, the leaflets of the mitral valve bulge (prolapse) into the left atrium like a parachute during the heart's contraction. Sometimes mitral valve prolapse causes blood to leak back into the atrium from the ventricle, which is called mitral valve regurgitation.
Thurgood Marshall (July 2, 1908 â January 24, 1993) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, serving from October 1967 until October 1991. Marshall was the Court's 96th justice and its first African-American justice. Before becoming a judge, Marshall was a lawyer who was best known for his high success rate in arguing before the Supreme Court and for the victory in Brown v. Board of Education, a decision that desegregated public schools.
courtesy: University of Maryland. In December of 1955, Thurgood Marshall married Cecilia Cissy Suyat, a secretary for the NAACP. Suyat, who is Filipino-Hawaiian, was at first reluctant to marry Marshall. She feared that an interracial marriage might attract negative attention to both the NAACP and Marshall. In typical fashion, Marshall's response was, So what? The couple had two boys, Thurgood, Jr. and John. Justice and Mrs. Marshall remained married until Marshall's death in 1993.