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    The Heart Of The Lungs

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    exist today. The lungs are classified as one of the hardest-working organs in the body, besides the heart. They can expand and contract up to 20 times a minute or more to provide oxygen to be distributed to tissues in all parts of the body. They are considered to be the largest organ in the body. Taking up over forty percent of the chest cavity. Due to the size, we can only have two. The heart takes up the other space in the upper cavity. Each lung is made up of a sponge like material of tissue

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    The Heart And The Liver

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    The heart and the liver are nearly related, What 's more this need been known for a number a considerable length of time. So, patients for intense Also incessant heart disappointment create manifestations identified with those liver. In the setting about right-sided heart disappointment a range from claiming hepatic derangements occur, known as cardiovascular cirque or congestive hepatopathy (Moller Also Bernardi, 2013). Those impact of cardiovascular cirque ahead prognosis may be not that clear

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    at highest risk of having heart attack due to her personal and medical backgrounds. She is 46 year old, African woman which according to study published in New England Journal in 2009, Africans have much higher incidence of heart failure than any other races , and before age 50 heart failure rate is 20 times higher. She has a strong family history of cardiovascular disease. She lost her father and grandfather from heart attack that increases her risk of developing heart disease. Her obesity, smoking

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    Terms: Left Atrium – one of the four chambers of the heart, located on the left posterior side Right Atrium – one of the four chambers of the heart, located on the right posterior side. Left Ventricle – one of four chambers of the heart. It is located in the bottom left portion of the heart below the left atrium, separated by the mitral valve. Right Ventricle – one of the heart's four chambers. It is located in the lower right portion of the heart below the right atrium and opposite the left ventricle

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    Heart failure describes a medical condition when the heart is unable to pump sufficient blood to the body [85]. While heart failure does not mean the immediate stopping of the heart, it is a serious and fatal condition. A study has found that the 4-year mortality rate for chronic heart failure was 43% for patients with preserved systolic function, and 54% for patients with reduced systolic function [86]. Heart failure is prevalent, with about 2-3% of adults worldwide showing signs of heart failure

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    Cardiovascular System The fetal pig heart and the sheep heart were very similar in structure. They both consist of two atria and two ventricles. The biggest difference noted between the fetal pig and the sheep hearts were the size. The sheep heart was larger than the pig, although the pig heart seemed to have thicker myocardial muscles. The four valves of the heart are the tricuspid valve, the pulmonic valve, the mitral valve, and the aortic valve. The tricuspid valve is located between the right

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    Heart Disease is a generic term for heart conditions and there are many of these if you were to look at the British Heart Foundation website; at least 19 are listed. Heart conditions affect the performance of the heart and the main cause of death amongst heart conditions is Coronary Heart Disease, according to the NHS website. This is when the heart muscle receives inadequate blood flow due to an interruption of its blood supply, (Tortora and Dickenson 2011). Coronary Artery Disease is the most common

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    Heart failure (HF) is the inability of the heart to pump adequately to meet the metabolic needs of the body (Jeffrey et al, 2007). It is caused by structural or functional abnormalities of the heart (NICE, 2003). The reduced contractility leads to a reduced stroke volume, and therefore the heart rate is increased to help maintain cardiac output. HF can either be chronic where it has been occurring over time or acute, where it happens suddenly. Around 900,000 people in the UK have HF, with almost

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    Heart failure is a chronic, progressive condition in which the heart muscle is unable to pump enough blood through to meet the body 's needs for blood and oxygen. Basically, the heart can 't keep up with its workload. American Heart Association Statistics (2016) reveals that heart failure accounts for 36% of cardiovascular disease deaths. Projections report a 46% increase in the prevalence of Heart Failure (HF) by 2030 by affecting over 8 million people above 18 years with the disease. Healthy People

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    What is heart failure? Heart failure is a condition in which the heart is unable to pump blood with enough force and speed to meet the needs of body tissues. In some cases, the heart pumps blood fast enough to meet the needs of the body, but at the cost of extra work. It does this by increasing the pressure within the heart and blood vessels. The increased pressure accentuates the wear of heart. This state is known as congestive heart failure or heart failure name. The term heart failure seems to

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