Sentences with phrase «pulmonary artery of the lungs»

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Pulmonary hypertension involves an increase of blood pressure in the arteries of the lung that can lead to heart failure.

The de-oxygenated and carbon dioxide rich blood is pumped out of the right side of your heart to your lungs via your pulmonary artery.

When a living heartworm and the inflammation it causes blocks one of these pulmonary arteries, the lung tissue downstream from the blockage is injured and the cat's ability to breath is affected.

Adult worms (males ~ 15 cm in length, females ~ 25 cm) develop primarily in the pulmonary arteries of the caudal lung lobes over the next 2 - 3 mo..

From the ventricles, blood is pumped out into the lungs through the pulmonary artery (on the right) or out to the body through the aorta (on the left) through a second series of one - way valves (the pulmonic valve on the right and the aortic valve on the left).

The name is descriptive — these worms lodge in the right side of the heart and the pulmonary arteries (that send blood to the lungs), though they can travel through the rest of the body and sometimes invade the liver and kidneys.

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

About 50 % of cats with heartworm disease will have evidence of enlarged pulmonary arteries on x-rays of their lungs.14 However, these findings can be found with other parasitic infections such as roundworms (Toxocara) and lungworms (Aelurostrongylus).

[1] The parasite is commonly called «heartworm»; however, adults often reside in the pulmonary arterial system (lung arteries), as well as the heart, and a major effect on the health for the animal is a manifestation of damage to the lung vessels and tissues.

X-rays of the chest of a heartworm - infected cat may show an increased width of the pulmonary arteries and focal or diffuse opacities in the lungs.

Tiny heartworm larvae are injected into the blood stream where they mature over the span of about 6 months until they reach adulthood in the veins of the pulmonary artery and lungs, where they reproduce and release microfilaria into the blood for the mosquito to ingest and pass on.

One of the mechanisms of the body to bypass the lungs of the pup is to flow the blood directly from the pulmonary artery to the aorta.

The pulmonary veins were slightly larger than the pulmonary arteries; the lung parenchyma with diffuse interstitial pattern in the area of the hilus.

They will grow and develop and move to progressively larger arteries of the lungs until they finally arrive in the main pulmonary artery.

Most of the worms will actually be in the pulmonary arteries (taking blood from the right side of the heart to the lungs to get oxygen).

In re: «throwing a worm» (lousy description) The worms live in the larger diameter pulmonary arteries (that take blood from the right side of the heart to the lungs to get oxygen), pretty close to the heart.

Heartworms are potentially fatal parasitic worms living in the pulmonary arteries, lungs and hearts of both cats and dogs.

Adult worms reside primarily in the pulmonary arteries of the caudal lung lobes, but can move into the right ventricle of the heart if the worm burden is high.

But what is worse is that the right side of the heart and pulmonary artery (pulmonary trunk) were not designed to handle the high - pressure blood arriving through the PDA from the infant's aorta, nor was the left side of the heart designed to accept the larger - than - normal volume of blood now coming back from the lungs.

The pulmonary arteries connect the heart to the lungs; they are essential for transfer of oxygen and other nutrients throughout the body, and for removal of carbon dioxide and other waste products from circulation.

Sudden death is thought to be due to a reaction within the lungs to the young heartworms, or to a reaction to dead or live heartworms entering the pulmonary arteries and obstructing the flow of blood to the lungs.

Many cats with heartworms have an increase in the size of the pulmonary arteries, or the arteries may appear blunted (suddenly come to an apparent stop) on their way to the lungs, due to worms obstructing them.

Adult heartworms can grow 10 to 12 inches in length and make their home in the right side of the heart and pulmonary (lung) arteries, often causing lung disease and heart failure.

Pulmonic stenosis is a congenital heart defect of the semilunar valve that is between the right ventricle and the pulmonary artery (great vessel that takes blood to the lungs).

Part of this clot can easily detach and flow with the blood stream up the inferior vena cava, through the right side of the heart and into the pulmonary artery causing a PE which, if large enough, may obstruct the circulation to the lung and strain the heart, causing almost instant death.

Pulmonary Embolism: The arteries in the lungs are blocked, usually by a blood clot that has traveled from other areas of the body.

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