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| ventricles, lower heart chamber |
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| atrium, upper heart chamber |
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| abdominal aortic aneurysm |
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| automatic external defibrillator |
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| local widening(dilation) of an arterial wall |
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| x ray imaging of blood vessels after injection of contrast materials |
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| largest artery in the body |
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| most common type of cardiac arrhythmia affecting 5 to 10 % of 70 to 80 year old people and 15% of individuals in their 80's |
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| atrioventricular node carries electrical impulses |
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| atrioventricular bundle, conduction bundle of specialized muscle fibers |
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| coronary artery bypass grafting |
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| a minimal invasion treatment to treat cardiac arrhythmia |
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| congestive heart failure, heart is unable to pump its required amount of blood |
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| brief discharge of electricity are applied across the chest to stop dysrythmia |
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| relaxation phase of the heart beat |
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| deep vein thrombrosis, blood clot forms in a large vein, usually in a lower limb |
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| echocardiography echos generated by high frequency sound waves produce images of the heart |
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| echocardiography record used to detect these electrical changes in the heart muscle as the heart beats |
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| surgical removal of plaque from the inner layer of an artery |
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| inner lining of the heart |
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| an ECG device is worn during a 24 hr period to detect cardiac arrhythmia |
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| hepertension high blood pressure |
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| ICDfor patients at high risk for sudden cardiac death from ventricular dysrhthmia |
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| carries blood from the lower portion of the body |
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| seperates the two lower chambers (atria) |
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| a muscle wall, comes between the two lower chambers |
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| is where newly oxygenated blood enters the heart |
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| within the interventricular septum the bundle of his divides into the left and right bundle branch |
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| recieves blood from mitral valve, it has the thickest walls of all four heart chambers |
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| Myocardial infarction, heart attack, the area of dead mycocardial tissue know as an infarct |
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| valve between the left atrium and left ventricle, bicuspid valve |
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| extra heart sound, heard between normal heart beats |
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| mitral valve prolapse, improper closure of the mitral valve |
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| muscular, middle layer of the heart |
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| nitrate drug used to treat angina |
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| normal sinus rythm, heart rythm |
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| non-ST elevation myocardial infaction |
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| an electronic apparatus implanter into the chest to stimulate heart muscle that is to weak and not functioning |
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| uncomfortable sensation in the chest related to cardiac arrhythmia's |
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| patent ductus arteriosus: posterior descending artery |
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| between the visceral and the perietal pericardial contains 10 to 15 ml pericardial fluid which lubricates the membrane as the heart beats |
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