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This valve connects your right atrium and right ventricle
What is the tricuspid valve
This refers to the narrowing or constriction of a bodily opening, often due to the accumulation of plaque or other obstructions.
What is stenosis
CTO
What is Chronic Total Occlusion
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This refers to the heart's contraction phase, when the ventricles pump blood out of the heart.
What is systole
This is the muscular wall that separates the heart into the left and right sides.
What is the Septum
HCM
What is Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
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This artery carries deoxygenated blood from the right ventricle into the lungs where it then becomes oxygenated.
What is the Pulmonary Artery
This main vein from the upper part of the body returns deoxygenated blood to the heart
What is the Superior Vena Cava
ICD
What is Internal Cardioverter Defibrillator
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This is the measurement, expressed as a percentage, of how much blood the left ventricle pumps out with each contraction.
What is Ejection Fraction
This is the catheter used to get measurements during a right heart catheterization and is sometimes left in critically ill patients for monitoring.
What is a Swan-Ganz catheter
DOAC
What is Direct Oral Anticoagulant
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This is the product of the heart rate and the stroke volume, and is the volume of blood pumped by the heart per minute
HR x SV = ?
What is Cardiac Output
This device is used for measuring blood pressure.
What is a Sphygmomanometer
LVOTO
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