Sentences with phrase «chambers of the heart»

This AV node electrically connects the upper and lower chambers of the heart.

These larvae travel to the heart and grow into large adult worms in the right chambers of the heart.

This act is not an instant accomplishment, taking place in the secret chambers of the heart, but, as the inquiry suggests, a lifelong public commitment.

It allows the veterinarian to assess the heart muscle, the individual chambers of the heart, the valves of the heart, and other critical structures within the heart.

It can show the different chambers of the heart and offer a live feed of the heart pumping.

It electrically connects the upper and lower chambers of the heart.

The left atrial appendage is a sac attached to the left upper chamber of the heart where blood clots and strokes originate from in patients with atrial fibrillation.

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is a disease of the pumping chamber of the heart where the muscle does not relax well after it contracts.

The mitral valve divides the lower and upper left chambers of the heart.

Take, for example, a condition called cardiac hypertrophy, in which the left ventricle, one of the two major chambers of the heart, increases in size and thickness, usually in concert with weight gain and hypertension.

Atrial fibrillation happens when the electrical currents in the heart go haywire and the top chambers of the heart quiver or flutter.

Heart enlargement (where the right chambers of the heart become so large that as the heart beats they pinch off the main airways)

An atrial septal defect (ADS) is defined as a congenital heart defect that is located between the atria chambers of the heart which allows blood to flow freely between the two atrial chambers.

«In our study, we found that the best indicator of success is how in sync the left atrium chamber of the heart is when it relaxes,» says Luisa Ciuffo, M.D., a postdoctoral fellow in the Division of Cardiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Instead of beating regularly, the upper chambers of the heart quiver.

MRI is superior to other imaging techniques for measuring the interior of the heart, including the right and left ventricles or main chambers of the heart, as well as the heart's muscular tissue.

Then he injected more dye, and this time I saw blood flow to the bottom chamber of my heart.

Is that when it happens, not in my cerebrum, but in my gut, in the pounding chambers of my heart.

Putting a squishy robot around the diseased chamber of a heart helps it pump while you wait for a new one - and could even rehabilitate it so you don't need one

Already, the structures that would become her eyes had formed rudimentary orbs and the four tiny chambers of her heart were taking shape.

Two valves, tricuspid (at left in the image) and mitral (right), control blood flow into the next chamber of the heart.

Using MRI scans of the heart before and after a marathon, chambers of the heart dilate and show decreased function and may take up to a week to recover.

In addition to these difficulties, less efficient blood pumping may also lead to a backup of blood to the other chambers of the heart and to the lungs, which may contribute to the development of congestive heart failure or the formation of blood clots in the heart.

With time, increased back pressure causes one or more chambers of the heart to enlarge.

Eventually the atrium or chamber of the heart starts getting bigger and swelling; when this happen it will push on some of the main airways in the lungs.

A study of 766 otherwise healthy adolescents showed that those who consumed the least vitamin K1 — found in spinach, cabbage, iceberg lettuce and olive oil — were at 3.3 times greater risk for an unhealthy enlargement of the major pumping chamber of their heart, according to the study published in The Journal of Nutrition.

An atrial septal defect (ASD) is an opening or hole in the wall that separates the two upper chambers of the heart.

This results in a reduced volume within the ventricles (major chambers of the heart), so reducing the volume of blood that the heart can pump with each contraction.

«Patients with obesity tend to have more fibrosis, higher pressures and more fatty infiltration in the top chamber of their hearts, so atrial fibrillation could be related to these types of changes.»

Heart block in general is the delayed or absent conduction through the atrioventicular node (the communication point between the upper and lower chambers of the heart).

My daughter, Nika, was born with a hole between the left and right chambers of her heart.

One of those at - risk muscles is in the left chamber of the heart, a section that plays a key role in supplying the body with freshly oxygenated blood.

Our 20 week scan was even more extraordinary in detail, showing all the chambers of the heart and the flow of blood around major organs.

This meaning is not at all agreeable to us yet it is turned toward us, and it «pushes straight through all the foulness to the chambers of our hearts.»

An atrial septal defect is a hole between the two upper chambers of the heart.

The tech kept saying, «thank you, baby», when she did hold still for measurements and confirmation of all her organs, length of femur, nasal bone, and looking at the 4 chambers of her heart.

The defects include those that obstruct the flow of blood from the right side of the heart into the lungs and openings between the upper chambers of the heart.

Treatments include drugs to regulate the electrical pulses in the upper chambers of the heart and 3/4 increasingly 3/4 catheter ablation.

A-Fib is the most common heart rhythm disorder that causes the upper chambers of the heart to beat fast and erratically.

That's like reporting that an emotional trauma eliminates one of the four chambers of the heart.

An echocardiogram showed that she has an atrial septal defect, or a so - called «hole» in the wall, that separates the top two chambers of the heart.

They also found that there was a significant improvement in the size of the ventricles: on average these chambers of the heart decreased in size by 15.7 percent (left ventricle mass: 229 grams before surgery; 193 grams after surgery.

Atrial fibrillation occurs when electrical impulses in the upper chambers of the heart, called the atria, become chaotic and cause an irregular heartbeat.

The mitral valve between the two left chambers of the heart has two leaflets, or cusps; the tricuspid, pulmonary and aortic valves each have three.

The heart pumps harder in an attempt to push blood through the valve, causing the chambers of the heart to enlarge, leading to heart failure if the valve isn't replaced.

«We focused on intramural ventricular septal defects, which are holes between two chambers of the heart,» said Meryl S. Cohen, MD, senior author and pediatric cardiologist at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP).

Atrial fibrillation, or a-fib, occurs when the atria (upper chambers of the heart) fibrillate (contract very fast and irregularly).

(The left atrium is one of the four chambers of the heart.)

An atrial septal defect is a hole in the part of the septum (wall) that separates the upper chambers of the heart.