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- How Blood Flows Through the Heart Body - Cleveland Clinic
After delivering oxygen and nutrients to all your organs and tissues, your blood enters your heart and flows to your lungs to gain oxygen and get rid of waste It then flows back to your heart, which pumps the refreshed blood out through your aorta to nourish your body again
- 4 Heart Valves: What They Are and How They Work - Cleveland Clinic
The heart pumps blood through the mitral valve into the left ventricle From the left ventricle, the blood flows through the aortic valve to the rest of your body
- How Your Circulatory System Works - Cleveland Clinic
After leaving the tissues and organs, your blood returns to your heart through veins The blood travels through your heart and lungs to get oxygenated again and repeat the process This happens thousands of times each day, with every beat of your heart
- Heart: Anatomy Function - Cleveland Clinic
Your heart contains four muscular sections (chambers) that briefly hold blood before moving it Electrical impulses make your heart beat, moving blood through these chambers
- Chambers of the Heart - Cleveland Clinic
The four heart chambers and four valves work together to separate the oxygen-rich blood from the oxygen-poor blood When healthy, the structure of your chambers and valves allows blood to flow in the right direction
- Myocardial Ischemia: Causes, Symptoms and Treatment
Myocardial ischemia (cardiac ischemia) is a lack of blood flow from your coronary arteries to your heart muscle This means that muscle can’t get enough oxygen
- Great Vessels of the Heart: Anatomy Function - Cleveland Clinic
Your aorta and pulmonary trunk (arteries) send blood out of your heart Your pulmonary veins, superior vena cava and inferior vena cava (veins) carry blood into your heart
- Left-Sided Heart Failure: Symptoms, Causes and Treatment
Left-sided heart failure occurs when the heart loses its ability to pump blood It often happens in people with high blood pressure and certain heart conditions
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