Sentences with phrase «ventricle of the heart pumps»

Iron deficiency is present in approximately 50 percent of patients with heart failure with reduced left ventricular ejection fraction (HFrEF; ejection fraction: a measure of how well the left ventricle of the heart pumps with each contraction) and is associated with reduced functional capacity, poorer quality of life, and increased mortality.

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Why It Works: Results in a larger left ventricle of the heart capable of pumping out more blood per beat.

Pulse rate is an indication of your heart rate as your arteries expand each time the ventricles pump blood out of the heart.

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.

The medical community has long debated the ideal treatment for AF, especially for patients who suffer from left ventricular dysfunction, a weakening of the left ventricle that supplies most of the heart's pumping power.

Although the primary endpoint was not met, a statistically significant 4 percent improvement was seen in a secondary endpoint, left ventricular ejection fraction — a measure of how much blood is being pumped out of the left ventricle — in patients whose STEMIs involved the front wall of the left ventricle (the heart's main pumping chamber), he said.

The percutaneous heart pump (PHP) developed at Penn State, shown here with a model of the left ventricle of a human heart, can keep a patient's blood flowing smoothly after a heart attack.

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.

In the 14 - 18 year olds who consumed the least vitamin K1, the study found the overall size and wall thickness of the left ventricle were already significantly greater and the amount of blood the heart pumped out significantly lower, Pollock says.

Specifically, using new heart - specific genes, they were able to follow in detail the cell movements that lead to the formation of the heart, as well as its divisions into two chambers, the atrium (the chamber that receives blood and passes it to the ventricles) and the ventricle (the pumping chamber).

For instance, as you know, you have an atrium, which is the top part of the heart that collects the blood, and then the ventricle, which will pump it through to your circulation, and we don't know directly whether these cells represent the atrial type of heart cell or the ventricular type of heart cell.

For example, cells in the left ventricle, the chamber of the heart that pumps blood to the body, are destined to serve that purpose within the first few days of development in an embryo.

This disorder causes the walls of the left ventricle to thin and weaken so that the heart can't pump blood as well as a healthy heart.

The left ventricle of your heart controls the ease at which you pump blood throughout your body.

It is the heart of an Audi RS5 that has been reorganized to create ventricles, valves, pumps and an aorta.

This results in a reduced volume within the ventricles (major chambers of the heart), so reducing the volume of blood that the heart can pump with each contraction.

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.

In this condition, the walls of the left ventricle — the heart chamber responsible for pumping blood out through the aorta — become progressively thicker.

The left ventricle contains the largest muscle of the heart so it can pump blood out through the arteries to all parts of the body.

In a normal heartbeat the atria (upper or filling chambers of the heart) contract and send a signal to the ventricles (lower or pumping chambers of the heart) to contract.

When the ventricle is unable to pump blood to the body, fluid goes from the heart backwards into the lungs (instead of from the heart forward to the body).

Dilated cardiomyopathy is a disease of the pumping chamber (ventricle) of the heart where the muscle becomes weakened and the contraction of the heart is decreased.

The left ventricle is the chamber of the heart which pumps blood around the body.

Normal animals typically have a nice, regular heart rhythm when which indicates normal coordination of electrical activity and subsequent pumping of the atria and ventricles.

It is a disease of the ventricle, which is the main pumping chamber of the heart.

The left ventricle contains the largest muscle of the heart so the blood can be pumped out to all parts of the body.