Sentences with phrase «vessels around the heart»
Radiographs also allow for evaluation of the lungs and vessels around the heart.
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Researchers think this has to do with the vessels that carry blood around our body and to our brains, which are also linked to things like stroke and heart disease.
Some heart disease patients may not be able to grow new blood vessels around blocked arteries because they can't make enough of a vital protein, according to a report in the latest issue of Circulation.
As part of a «Body on a Chip» project funded by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, scientists at Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, in collaboration with partners from around the country, are developing miniature hearts, livers, blood vessels and lungs that will be used to predict the effects of chemical and biologic agents and used to test the effectiveness of potential treatments.
It has no heart muscle to move the fluid around through its lymph vessels.
By dilating the blood vessels taking blood away from the heart, it decreases the work the heart must do to pump blood around the body and thereby reduces the afterload on the heart
Radiographs will often show the enlargement of the heart, abnormal distension of blood vessels and fluid retention in and around the lungs.
Radiographs of the chest will evaluate if there is fluid in or around the lungs, as well as the heart and blood vessels size.
Symptoms of the virus included vasculitis (a destruction of the body's blood vessels), severe vomiting, bloody diarrhea, fluid buildup around the lungs, as well as rapid heart rate and weakness.
Most veterinarians will do radiographs (X-rays) looking for fluid in the body cavities, heart size, changes in the vessels visible around the heart, and changes in the lung fields.
PSVA differs from MVD in the following way: the PSVA malformation involves one or rarely two large vessels that shunt blood around the liver directly to the heart, whereas the MVD malformation involves microscopic blood vessels within the liver.
Once inside the body the larvae migrate through the tissue and after around 70 days use blood vessels as a super highway to make their way to the heart, its preferred home.
When a dog receives drugs that kill heartworms, the dead and dying parasites can clog blood vessels, wrap around heart valves and mechanically interfere with heart function.
This makes sense as the heartworms are in the heart and surrounding vessels, which in turn makes the heart have to work harder to pump blood around the partial blockages caused by these worms.