The newly oxygen-rich blood (shown in red) returns to the heart and enters the left atrium. Blood flows through the left atrium into the left ventricle. The left ventricle pumps the oxygen-rich ...

Cut through the coracoid bar and pull back to fully open the pericardial cavity. Locate the vessels entering and leaving the heart and the 2 heart chambers - atrium and ventricle. Look at diagram of ...

Your surgeon will make an incision in your chest to access your heart and will use a machine to take over blood flow while your heart is temporarily stopped. In some cases, minimally invasive ...

One standard test is an echocardiogram (echo), a noninvasive ultrasound of the heart that uses sound waves to produce images. An echocardiogram shows how blood flows through the heart, how the ...

blood flows into the heart from a vein, goes into an atrium, then a ventricle, and out through an artery. The valves prevent the blood flowing backwards. The heart is relaxed and blood flows into ...

Disease of the cardiac valves and other cardiac structures frequently results in abnormal, turbulent blood flow ... to the A2 heart sound, the murmur of pulmonic stenosis extends through the ...

The most common cause of PAD is the buildup of plaque in blood vessels called "hardening" of the arteries. If you have hardening of the arteries in your legs, you most likely will have it in the ...

Originally appeared on the NOVA Web site Cut to the Heart. Let's get straight to the heart of the matter—the heart's job is to move blood. Day and night, the muscles of your heart contract and ...

Blood circulation is a significant body function as it distributes blood throughout the body, such as to the heart ... can disrupt blood flow. When the blood flow through the blood vessels ...