The aorta, a large blood vessel responsible for transporting oxygenated blood from the heart to the rest of the body, plays a ...

Announcing a new article publication for Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications journal. The heart is the central organ ...

Your circulatory system is made up of three parts: the heart, blood vessels and the blood itself. Your heart keeps all the blood in your circulatory system flowing. The blood travels through a ...

Venous reflux disease (VRD) occurs when veins do not properly return blood to the heart. Health experts refer to it as chronic venous insufficiency (CVI). VRD most commonly affects the legs and ...

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 relax to pump blood throughout your body. When blood returns ...

Veins between two capillary networks are portal systems. Closed circulatory system, but fluid constituents of blood leak out of capillaries and return to the heart by the second component of the ...

Artificial pacemakers keep blood and oxygen flowing during ... how these devices work requires appreciating how the heart’s ...

In this video, learn how blood moves around the body through the heart, arteries and more. Come along children, we’ve come to the hospital to learn how blood is moved around the body in the ...