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    Heart Insufficiency What is heart insufficiency or heart failure ? First of all it is important to clarify what heart insufficiency means. Heart failure is a chronic and progressive condition in which the the heart can’t pump blood properly through the body. It can’t keep up the body’s demands of blood and oxygen. The heart tries to compensate the lack of blood supply by various options: Enlarging: The heart stretches to contract stronger than usual which leads to an enlarging of the heart

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    Heart Rate In The Heart

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    The heart is a muscle that is used to pump blood throughout the body and helps circulate oxygen and red blood cells to muscles and organs. Heart rate is the measurement of how many times a person's heart beats in a certain amount of time. It is measure in BPM (beats per minute). Heart rate can be affected by the work of the muscles in the body. The more strain the muscles of the body are under or the more work they do means a higher heart rate. Recovery rate is derived from the measuring the heart

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    From my high school Human Anatomy and Physiology class, I vaguely remember the structure of the human heart. The human heart is fairly simple at a non-cellular level. Your heart contains a right and left atrium, and directly under those, a left and right ventricle. These are the four chambers of the human heart. Your heart also has two main exiting arteries: the pulmonary trunk which exits from the right ventricle and the aorta which exists from the left ventricle. The pulmonary trunk carries “dirty”

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    The heart is one of the most important organs in the human body. It circulates blood to the rest of the body. The heart is made up of four chambers, of the two chambers, the two upper chambers (known as the atria) and two lower chambers (known as ventricles). The heart is made up of three levels: the myocardium, the endocardium, and the epicardium. The myocardium is the muscular middle layer of the heart. It contains striated cardiac tissue and the myocardium is in charge of pumping blood and the

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    We have learned that the heart is a complex muscle that pumps blood throughout the body for the purposes of tissue oxygenation and gas exchange (waste removal). We must now discuss the four separate chambers of the heart through which this blood flows through. To start, the two upper, or superior chambers are known as the atria, and the two lower, or inferior chambers are known as the ventricles. These four chambers can further be separated into left and right half’s. Each half contains a superior

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    Report Heart Dissection The heart is a fantastical organ. The fact that it can circulate blood throughout the body in a quick span of time and make sure every limb and organ is nourished is astounding. The wonder is only increased when we look upon the heart in an Aristotelian sense, as something created and working towards a function, where every part is there for a reason. If we keep in mind the purpose of the heart while looking at the way it is structured with veins, arteries, and the heart itself

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    Americans have been diagnosed with heart failure” (Mancini & Colombo, 2015, p. 2542). Heart failure is a condition where the heart does not pump as efficiently; therefore, it does not meet the needs of the body. There is a growing number of heart failure patients each year. “More than 300,000 deaths per year are attributed to heart failure, and the annual cost to manage these patients is close to $40 billion” (Mancini & Colombo, 2015, p. 2542). Since the heart failure population is steadily growing

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    Artificial Heart

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    Coronary heart disease, one of the most pervasive diseases, has influenced millions of individuals around the globe. In 1995, 4000 patients waited for donor hearts and 731 of them died waiting (ijates). As the number of patients suffering from heart disease increased, the demand for donor hearts increased along with it. For this reason, it has brought biomedical engineers and researchers closer to developing devices like defibrillators and artificial hearts that may alleviate patients’ pain. Artificial

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    The Human Heart

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    The human heart is slightly bigger than the size of ones fist. It is situated at a very safe place which is between the cage bones, i.e., in the center of the chest. Usually it is slightly on the left side of the chest but in rare cases, it can be found on the right side. Heart is responsible for the blood flow to every single part of the body by constant contraction and relaxation of cardiac muscles. This is the reason why we hear rhythmic beats all the time. Heart pumps the pure blood to the different

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    Heart Structure

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    This passage is mainly about the structure and function of the heart which is located in the middle compartment of the chest but also tells about cardiovascular system, pulmonary system and so on. In the first paragraph, author illustrates about the heart shortly. The heart is a muscular organ in humans and other animals, which pumps blood through a 60,000 mile of blood vessels of the circulatory system. Blood moves through many tubes called arteries and veins which together are called blood vessels

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