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.
Not exact matches
The
heart pumps blood by contracting, and
if this one - way valve was not present then when the
heart relaxes then most
of the blood it just pumped from the
ventricle would leak back in, making the
heart very inefficient.
EF, the amount
of blood pumped out
of the
ventricles with each contraction, can be an early indicator
of heart failure
if the score is 35 percent or below.
High blood pressure can cause secondary changes to the
heart including thickening
of the left
ventricle, and
if severe enough can lead to
heart failure.