Your Heart's in the Right Place
These arteries supply the heart with blood.
What are the coronary arteries?
When a blockage in the blood vessels prevents part of the heart muscle from getting enough blood.
What is myocardial infarction (heart attack)?
MI (Heart Attack, damage to heart tissue due to blockage of coronary arteries)
What is Myocardial Infarction?
Normal heart tones are described this way.
S1-S2 (lub-dub)
Excess body fat (belly fat) and prediabetes are early warning signs of this.
What is CKM Syndrome?
This chamber of the heart receives de-oxygenated blood from the body.
What is the Right Atrium?
Loss of heart function leading to loss of breathing and consciousness.
What is cardiac arrest?
CHF (progressive condition resulting in decreased cardiac output)
What is Congestive Heart Failure?
Terms used to describe skin being sufficiently perfused by the cardiovascular system.
What is warm, pink and dry?
Atrial Septal Defect and Ventricular Septal Defect are two examples of this.
What are congenital heart defects?
This atypical artery takes blood from the right ventricle to the lungs.
What is the pulmonary artery?
Buildup and hardening of plaque in the heart's major blood vessels.
What is coronary artery disease?
CKM Syndrome (interconnected conditions, affecting multiple body systems)
What is Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic Syndrome?
These blood vessels have valves to prevent backflow.
What are veins?
Pedal edema, weight gain, pitting edema, difficulty breathing and JVD are all symptoms of this disease.
What is Congenital Heart Failure?
Blood being pumped out of the left ventricle enters this structure next.
What is the aorta?
Swelling and inflammation of the sac surrounding the heart.
What is pericarditis?
CAD (also referred to as atherosclerotic heart disease)
What is Coronary Artery Disease?
The name for the pumping phase of the heart beat.
What is systole?
Fatigue/weakness, dizziness, rapid HR, anxiety and diaphoresis are all symptoms of these.
What are heart arrythmias?
Deoxygenated blood enters the heart via these veins.
What are the Superior and Inferior Venae Cavae?
Sudden fluid accumulation around the heart, leading to heart compression, decreased cardiac output and eventually shock.
What is cardiac tamponade?
SA Node (considered the pacemaker of the heart)
What is the Sinoatrial Node?
The name for the reloading phase of the heartbeat.
What is diastole?
Coughing (bloody mucus), dizziness, heart palpitations, leg pain or swelling, and sharp and sudden chest pain are all symptoms of this.
What is pulmonary embolism?