Sentences with phrase «of turbulent blood flow»
This is often also associated with some degree of mitral regurgitation, and these causes of turbulent blood flow account for the systolic murmur audible in some cats with HCM.
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Most flows that we can observe in nature and in engineering are turbulent, from the smoke of an extinguished candle to the flow of blood in the left ventricle of our heart.
When this happens, the normal slow - flow of blood through the veins becomes «very fast, swirling, and turbulent,» Huy Do, MD, an interventional neuroradiologist with Stanford Health Care, tells Health.
Thickening of the myocardium per se does not cause turbulent blood flow, hence many cats with HCM do not have a heart murmur.
Heart disease leads to turbulent blood flow which encourages the formation of clots.
A heart murmur is when extra vibrations are produced due to turbulent blood flow or because of vibrations of the heart structure, such as part of a valve.
Examples are: dogs with chronic heart failure or cats with cardiomyopathy, where the turbulent blood flow may increase the likelihood of development of endocarditis; and dogs with chronic kidney or hepatic failure, where metabolic instability may produce a secondary immunopathy or where septic vascular aggregates may exacerbate the systemic disease.
A heart murmur is an abnormal heart sound caused by turbulent blood flow into, through or out of one or more heart chambers.