Heart Disease • What is Heart Disease? Heart disease is any disorder which affects the heart. Almost half of heart diseases are from coronary heart disease. Coronary heart disease is responsible for 82‚000 deaths in the UK each year – an average of 224 people a day. o Coronary Heart Disease Coronary heart disease affects the coronary arteries‚ which supply the heart muscle itself with the glucose and oxygen that it requires for respiration. • Atheroma Atheroma is a fatty deposit that forms
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1) Heart transplants are recommended to patients when severe heart failure is present or when one or both ventricles are not functioning like how they should be. In many forms of congenital heart disease‚ ventricular failure may also occur. It is more common in congenital defects with a single ventricle or when irreversible heart failure occurs from long-standing valve obstruction or even leakage. Patients who had the Fontan procedure as a child (which includes helping complex congenital heart defects)
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19 The Cardiovascular System: The Heart 1. How is the heart positioned in the mediastinum? It rests on the diaphragm‚ near the midline of the thoracic cavity‚ with about two-thirds of the mass lying to the left of the body’s midline. 2. Which layer of the pericardium is both a part of the pericardium and a part of the heart wall? Serous pericardium 3. What is the function of pericardial fluid? Reduces friction between the membranes as the heart moves 4. From most superficial
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In the novella “Heart of Darkness” Joseph Conrad compares and contrasts the societies and civilizations of Europe and Africa. Throughout the novella Conrad displays different opinions along with comparisons and contrasts of the mentality‚ the reputation that is perceived by the people of the two continents and also the differences between the people and their lifestyles. The representation of the African culture in “Heart of Darkness” is considered a dark‚ mysterious‚ inhumane continent where savages
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Darkness in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness The symbolism of darkness plays a central role in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. For instance‚ as Marlow narrates his encounter working as an agent of a Belgian ivory trading firm called “the company” in Congo‚ Africa‚ he describes a scene of two women knitting black wool. The black wool‚ in this case‚ represents the imagery of darkness. The older woman is said to possess an “uncanny and fateful” (Conrad 1.24) look. In the novel‚ Marlow also puts across
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Heart of Darkness written by Joseph Conrad was a fascinating book that told of a man named Marlow and his journey in Africa. He is hired by a trading company to go up the Congo in order to make contact with a man named Kurtz. He is given command of his own riverboat in order to make the journey. Along the way he sees many disagreeable things that have been caused by the Europeans exploiting the continent of Africa. The things he sees along the way make Heart of Darkness a good title for the book
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Open-heart surgery is the broad term to define the need to make an incision in the chest to correct and fix abnormalities affecting heart production. The most common type of heart surgery: Coronary artery bypass grafting which improves the blood flow to the heart (Types of Heart Surgery NHLBI‚ 2013). The procedure involves using a healthy artery or vein from the body and connecting/grafting‚ to the blocked coronary artery. The grafted artery or vein bypasses the blocked portion‚ creating a new path
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The Tell-Tale Heart In his narrative poem The Tell-Tale heart‚ Edgar Allen Poe tells the story of an insane madman who is in love with an old man’s eye. The story begins with the madman telling us how he loves the old man but wants to kill him because of his eye. The old man’s eye is like none other and resembles a vulture’s eye. And Poe instills his poem with the same despair experienced by the narrator by using characteristics that are typical of gothic literature such as‚ High Emotion‚ Mysterious
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Hitler and the Nazis put her and her family through‚ Anne still believed that these people were good people. She believed that they were still good at heart. One can tell that Anne Frank was a very understanding and optimistic person. Many in this world come out to be optimistic as well — or try to be. No matter what‚ everyone really is good at heart whether if it was Hitler himself‚ the people right here in this school‚ or the celebrities that walk the same streets. Adolf Hitler was a heartless
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Healing a broken heart from a lost love seems to be the most challenging endeavor that anyone could image. A break up usually starts with a period of paralyzing shock‚ turning into helplessness and deep grief. Right after the break-up‚ we feel big sense of bewilderment. Everything happened very suddenly‚ and we simply do not understand it. We have extreme difficulty accepting that it’s over because there is something inside of us resisting the facts.We simply cannot let go of them. We still feel
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