Sentences with phrase «pulmonary circulation of the blood»

The Spanish biologist Servetus, who had discovered the pulmonary circulation of the blood before William Harvey, was deeply religious.

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In a similar fashion to the changes to the left atrium with certain left - sided heart diseases, diseases that primarily affect the right side of the heart (e.g. primary pulmonary hypertension, heartworm disease, tricuspid valve dysplasia, pulmonic stenosis) may reduce forward flow of blood into the pulmonary circulation and, again depending on severity, may lead to a build - up of volume and / or pressure within the right atrium which will also try to enlarge to compensate.

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.