Sentences with phrase «heart chambers»

Echocardiography is useful in determining a definitive diagnosis of underlying structural disease as it provides a quantitative evaluation of heart chamber size, wall thickness, and the dynamic changes that occur during the cardiac cycle.1

The clinical signs occur when the pressure in the enlarged heart chambers cause fluid to leak out of the blood vessels into the lungs (called pulmonary edema or «water on the lungs») and sometimes the belly (ascites).

Radiographs are also less sensitive than echocardiography in detecting subtle changes in heart chamber sizes.

This enlargement will make the lower heart chamber thick.

Echocardiography (ultrasound of the heart) enables us to detect the source of a heart murmur, assess heart chamber size, and detect fluid located within the chest cavity and around the heart.

Pets with a hole between heart chambers (patent ductus arteriosus) also had a distinctive «machine» murmur.

This is one of the best ways to assess the severity of heartworm infection, because most dogs with heavy heartworm burdens have enlarged right heart chambers and pulmonary arteries.

Heartworms irritate the sensitive lining of blood vessels and heart chambers by direct physical contact.

When the mitral valve malfunctions and does not close all the way, blood flows backward into the upper heart chamber (atrium) from the lower chamber as it contracts.

«We believe it is the first example illustrating the process of a developing human heart chamber in vitro,» said Kevin Healy, a UC Berkeley professor of bioengineering, who is co-senior author of the study with Dr. Bruce Conklin, a senior investigator at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease and a professor of medical genetics and cellular and molecular pharmacology at UC San Francisco.

Unfortunately, they can also pass away suddenly from abnormal heart beats from the diseased heart chambers.

After the fluid has been removed from the chest, new radiographs are often taken to see if there are any structures (such as masses or heart chamber enlargements) that have become visible now that overlying fluid is gone.

There are many causes of DCM, While DCM is classically thought of as an inherited disease of the heart muscle, there are many causes of heart chamber dilation and reduced heart function that can mimic DCM.

27 percent reduction in conotruncal defects, or severe heart outflow tract abnormalities; 23 percent reduction in coarctation of the aorta — a narrowing of the major artery (the aorta) that carries blood to the body; 15 percent reduction in atrial and ventricular septal defects — holes in the wall separating heart chambers; however, no changes were seen with regard to chromosomally associated defects — abnormality in the number of an infant's chromosomes.

Over time, the muscle of one of the major heart chambers (the left ventricle) becomes thickened, as the heart has to work harder to pump the blood when there is high blood pressure.

Because of this, blood tends to pool and stagnate in the left atrium, the top heart chamber.

If an x-ray shows an enlarged heart, we can't tell from the x-ray if the walls of the heart are thick with narrowed heart chambers (where the blood flows) or if the walls are thin and weak with big chambers or if there is fluid build - up between the heart and the sac that surrounds it.

Changes on the ECG can also suggest enlargement of specific heart chambers.

A heart murmur is an abnormal heart sound caused by turbulent blood flow into, through or out of one or more heart chambers.

In addition to this, ECG also calculates the exact size and location of the various heart chambers, the incidence of any specific injuries to the human heart and the impact of some medical devices (for instance, the pacemaker) or drugs that are used to normalize the heart beat and functioning.

Echocardiography (ultrasound): to show any thickening of the heart valve edges or enlargement of the chambers of the heart

Wolff - Parkinson - White is a syndrome that results in an abnormal electrical pathway from the upper to the lower heart chambers.

They live in the right heart chambers and pulmonary arteries — the lungs — of infected dogs.

A dog with end stage MVD suffers from a progressive deterioration of its quality of life, due to an inability to keep him free from fluid congestion, together with enlarged heart chambers, lethargy, collapse, and deterioration of its kidney and liver functions.

When the valves leak, some blood can go backwards, and cause problems because there is over-distention of the upper heart chamber.

«We believe it is the first example illustrating the process of a developing human heart chamber in vitro,» said Kevin Healy, PhD, a UC Berkeley professor of bioengineering, who is co-senior author of the study with Bruce Conklin, MD, a senior investigator at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease and a professor of medical genetics and cellular and molecular pharmacology at UC San Francisco.

Unfortunately, in addition, these cats can also pass away suddenly from abnormal heart beats from the diseased heart chambers.

«The clot clogged his heart chamber like a wad of gum in a pipe.

The scientists reported on the use of intraoperative TEE to identify intramural ventricular septal defects (VSDs)-- holes in the wall between two heart chambers.

For their study, the Max Planck researchers used genetically modified fish larvae, in which the targeted muscle cells of the heart chamber were destroyed by the administration of a substance.

In DiGeorge syndrome, the connections between the heart chambers and nearby vessels fail to develop properly.

The machine delivers compressed air to the heart chambers, allowing them to pump the blood through the body.

Endocarditis is an infection of the endocardium, which is the inner lining of your heart chambers and heart valves.

«Heart health is difficult to quantify, but in general refers to the heart's ability to handle an increased workload demand in a non-maladaptive way — like increasing the pressure built up in the heart chambers or increasing wall stiffness.»

heart rate increase, if excessive, lead to reduce volume output from the heart as there is less time to fill the heart chambers full of blood between each beat.

What really makes your heart chambers pulsate is how a car behaves on the road.

An echocardiogram (sonogram) allows us to see into the heart chambers and even visualize the heartworms themselves.

This makes the space inside the heart chambers smaller, so the heart can no longer fill up with the correct amount of blood.

Various parts of the heart can be damaged by disease, including the cardiac muscle itself or the valves between the heart chambers.

Rarely, patients with advanced disease may die suddenly from rupture of a severely enlarged heart chamber or tearing of the supporting structures of the valve.

The degeneration and severity of the leaks progress with time, resulting in enlargement (dilation) of the heart chambers on either side of the leaky valve (Figures 1B, 2).

And because these worms reside in the heart, they interfere with the heart's function, and in the worst case scenario, even infect the heart chambers leaving the host animal weak.

The heart chambers expand — or dilate — and the heart can not pump effectively.

Dilated Cardiomyopathy (DCM) is a condition characterized by weakness of the heart muscle (poor contractility) that eventually leads to enlargement (dilation) of the heart chambers and complications of congestive heart failure, irregular heart rhythms (arrhythmias), and / or sudden death in affected individuals.

Where hypertrophic cardiomyopathy results in a thickened heart muscle with smaller heart chambers, dilated cardiomyopathy causes the heart chamber to be dilated or enlarged.

In a cat with HCM, the heart's left ventricle (its primary «pump muscle») is thickened, leading to a decrease in the volume of the heart chamber and to abnormal relaxation of the heart muscle.

Since the heart muscle can not work as efficiently to pump blood out of the heart, blood backs up within the heart chambers and the heart enlarges in size.

A medication that reduces the ability of the blood to clot may be prescribed if the patient is felt to be at risk for blood clot formation or currently has a blood clot in one of its arteries or heart chambers.