Aortic valve

On June 23, 1858 a well established Medical Practitioner named Antoine Prosper Marfan and his wife Adelaïde Thuries bought a new life into the world. Antoine Prosper and Adelaide’s son was named Antoine Bernard-Jean Marfan. Bernard’s father, Antoine Prosper had refused to accept his son’s choice in pursuing a career in the medical field. Prosper later gave up on arguing with his son and Bernard went off to study at a medical school in Toulouse, France. Two years went by and Bernard decided to go…

a frightening day for her as well as family and friends. On October 31st, 2013 Allison Piscitelli had to go through one of the toughest surgeries ever. Piscitelli had to get a heart surgery. She had to get her aortic valve replaced with a mechanical valve and they had to replace an aortic aneurysm with a plastic root. All taking place 6 hours away from everything she knew in Cleveland, Ohio. By the age of 6 Piscitelli found out she had heart problems. Since she found out as a child she was…

postnatal circulation it is important to note that in a fully functioning not pregnant mammal blood circulates in the following way: vena cava, right atrium, tricuspid valve, right ventricle, pulmonary semi lunar valve, pulmonary arteries, lungs, pulmonary veins, left atrium, bicuspid valve, left ventricle, aortic semilunar valve, aorta, systemic circulation, vena cava. Fetal circulation works by using three shunts to direct deoxygenated blood and avoid the not yet fully developed lungs and…

as it travels to the right atrium. Then, from the lungs there are pulmonary veins that brings poor oxygenated blood to left atrium. Also our heart composed of valve called pulmonary valve to prevent our blood to flow back to our right ventricle as if went after it arrives from our pulmonary artery. There is another valve called tricuspid valve that prevents the poor oxygenated blood to flow back into our right atrium. The inferior vena cava is the part of our heart that brings poor oxygenated…

is when the AV closes and the semilunar valve closes. 2. Point D is at the S2 area. This is where the “dub” sound is made. This is the beginning of ventricular filling where the AV valves open. 3. At the end of the atrial systole, the ventricles have a maximum amount of blood that each can carry. The quantity of this is known as the end- diastolic volume. 4. In S2 is the occurrence of ventricular filling, when the semilunar vale closes and the AV valve opens. 5. Red Blood Cells have a…

just under 6000 square foot clinic located on the 3rd floor of Jewish Hospital is geared towards individualized patient care. The patients will meet an entire heart team consisting of cardiologist, surgeons, anesthesiologists, NP Nurse Navigator, valve coordinators and research coordinators. The Structural Heart team is on a mission to make the patient experience as simple as possible starting with the moment you arrive at the hospital by providing free valet parking and curb side transport…

now in the right side of the heart, literally, the right atrium. The SA node’s action potential fires again and through the tricuspid valve we go. We’re now in the right ventricle. This one is roomy like the left so we have to wait with the AV node until the ventricle fills up some more. Finally! The AV bundle fires and we pump through the pulmonary semilunar valve into the pulmonary trunk and out the pulmonary arteries. We are on our way back to the lungs now. It gets a little small again as we…

include chest pain, heart failure and abnormal heart rhythms.”(Mayo Clinic, 2012). Another cause of systolic dysfunction is valvular stenosis. Valvular stenosis is defined as a thickening or blockage to one or possibly more heart valve. In example, if a patient has aortic valve stenosis, their left ventricle would have great difficulty pumping blood efficiently. One other cause of systolic dysfunction is coronary heart disease or CHD. This cause of systolic dysfunction is from plaque that…

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defects that fall under this category. Tricuspid atresia is categorized due to decreased pulmonary circulation and cyanosis from lack of oxygen. The tricuspid valve, an important component structure of the heart, is blocked and hinders blood from leaving the right atrium to the right ventricle. In the case of pulmonary atresia, the pulmonary valve is incapable of reaching full development. This inhibits blood floor from the right ventricles to the…