CPR, or Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, is a procedure used to resuscitate someone whose heart has stopped beating or whose breathing has stopped. It is a life-saving technique that involves applying pressure on the chest to create a flow of oxygenated blood to the...
Our heart at once has to pump the impure blood to the lungs and pure blood to the rest of the body parts. An amazingly simple mechanism makes this happen with the help of valves. The valves are like the doors that facilitate blood flow in and out of the heart in one...
Atrial Septal Defect is a congenital heart condition, commonly called a ‘hole in the heart’. The hole is formed in the muscular wall of the heart, called the ‘septum’ which separates the upper chambers of the heart. Given the wall separates the oxygenated blood and...
Total anomalous pulmonary venous return (TAPVR) is a cardiovascular genetic disorder in which the veins carrying blood from the lungs don’t connect properly to the left atrium. Instead, they travel to the heart via an erroneous connection. In this cardiac...
A group of cells along with an intercellular framework that performs a special type of function is called tissue. The entire human body is made up of four types of tissues – Muscular, Epithelial, Neural and Connective. Each type of tissue has a special function....
There are more than 25 lakh patients in India who suffer from Rheumatic Heart Disease. And the number of patients affected by this life-threatening heart disease seems to be growing with every year passing. What starts as rheumatic fever when not adequately treated...
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