If the bicuspid (mitral) valve is not fully closing, does pulmonary circulation increase, decrease, or not change?

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Answer: Decrease

It will decrees because required volume of blood will not be   emptied into the pulmonary circulation  to reach the lung for oxygenation. Rather blood flows back into the  Right  atrium ,(regurgitation,) through the these valves   during ventricular contraction ( systole)of the Right Ventricle instead to the pulmonary circulation which  reduces blood flow leading  to volume overload  in  the heart. Eventually this  affects systemic circulation,

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