The Heart Blog

It goes round and round The atria receive blood from all the parts of the body and the lungs and push it into the ventricles. The ventricles contract and push blood through the huge Aorta and Pulmonary Artery and then through the whole body and the lungs respectively....

Chambers The heart can be compared to a four room apartment or a house. An apartment has doors between rooms, so does the heart have valves. Just like doors, the valves open in a certain direction when blood flows through them.If the heart valves open in the reverse...

Chambers The heart has four chambers, two atria (atrium-chamber) and two ventricles (cavities). There is an atrium and a ventricle on the right and one each, on the left side.

Fancy Electric Pump Made of a special type of muscle, the heart has the remarkable capacity of beating on its own. While other muscles depend on the brain for movements, the heart has its own electrical impulse generator, which makes the heart beat about 60-80 times a...

Heart: 'What' and 'How'. All over the world, the Indians have gained a dubious reputation for the greatest susceptibility to heart disease. Urbanization, stressful life-styles, widespread use of tobacco, excessive consumption of high cholesterol food, diabetes, blood...

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Can heart disease be prevented? The question is uppermost in everyone's mind. The answer is, 'yes' in some cases and 'no' in others. Some of us can prevent heart attack by following a certain lifestyle. But others are victims of risk factors of heart disease because...

Advantages of heart valve surgery. Heart valve disease patients live a much challenged life. Heart valve surgery offers the promise of a better quality of life. After such operations, most patients can do many things that were impossible for them before. Improvement...