Finding out you or a loved one has a heart murmur can be frightening. Anything that causes heart complications is frightening. A heart murmur is an extra or unusual sound heard during your heartbeat. Although heart murmurs are common and need to be taken seriously‚ they are often quite harmless. Heart murmurs are most common in healthy children who can possibly out grow the symptom. With normal tests‚ doctors can find out the cause of a heart murmer and help with the problem. There are many alternate
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Heart disease Stress symptoms: Effects on your body‚ feelings and behavior By Mayo Clinic staff Stress symptoms may be affecting your health‚ even though you might not realize it. You may think illness is to blame for that nagging headache‚ your frequent insomnia or your decreased productivity at work. But stress may actually be the culprit. Indeed‚ stress symptoms can affect your body‚ your thoughts and feelings‚ and your behavior. Being able to recognize common stress symptoms can give you
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The Rental Heart Kirsty Logan is an award-winning writer. She was born in 1984 and is currently living in Glasgow with her Girlfriend. The Rental Heart is a science-fiction short story‚ which takes place in the future. The short story is about a person‚ who‚ throughout his/her life‚ has to replace his/her heart every time he/she finds a new lover. The replaceable hearts are mechanical hearts‚ which apparently function like normal flesh-hearts even though the mechanical hearts literally shatter
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Heart Disease Stephanie Rodriguez CHCP Abstract According to the World Health Organization‚ cardiovascular disease is the most common death in the U.S. These heart attacks and strokes are responsible for more than 15 million deaths worldwide each year. Doctors assure that every day nearly 2‚500 people in many other countries around the world die from heart diseases. In my opinion‚ the heart is a major important
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Per: 7th November 22‚ 2011 Heart in a Box "How long can a human heart sit in a cooler of ice—thirsty for vein-borne blood‚ detached from ox y gen and lungs—before it becomes useless to the transplant patient who desperately needs it?" (Ballingall) Studies have shown that for up to 4 hours a transplanted heart can stay strong and healthy in a cooler of ice‚ but past six hours is too long for the heart to be stable‚ and its impossible to predict whether the heart will reject the recipient or not
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HEART DISEASE NOTES Video was made outside of Boston in Framingham. Studies started in 1948. Heart disease is # 1 killer in U.S. It starts squeezing your heart‚ and you feel a sharp point. 1/2 the people in the U.S. die with it‚ and 80% die from it. More men have it and more women die from it. Every minute heart disease kills someone in the U.S. Half the deaths in the U.S. population die by heart disease. Get tightness in the throat. Cholesterol is most deadly. Smoking hardens the arteries. High
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The Broken Heart‚ by John Donne‚ is a poem that illustrates imagery of how love destroys the heart. In the first stanza‚ it states “He is stark mad‚ whoever says‚ (1) that he hath been in love an hour.” (2) The author is giving an exploration that a man is out his mind or insane if he feels that love last only an hour. For instance‚ “decays” (3) and “devour” (4)‚ love does not decay‚ or pass away gradually‚ but love do devour a person. It can consume them and take over all aspects of the mind
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To:Operations Manager From: Lead Surgeon Date: September 13‚ 2012 Subject: Heart Transplant This evening of September 13‚ 2012 at 0900hrs we received word of an available heart. After further review of each matching candidates‚ we have decided that the 12 year young lady named Lisa will be receiving this heart. If Lisa does not receive this heart she has a high chance of not even making it to her 20s. She has suffered many health issues in her short life due to various viral infections
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1 The heart is a muscular organ found in all animals with a circulatory system. The heart pumps blood throughout the blood vessels by contractions. Cardiac means “related to the heart”‚ and comes from the Greek. The vertebrate heart is made up of cardiac muscle‚ it’s an involuntary striated muscle tissue found only in this organ‚ and connective tissue. The male’s heart weighs 9-11 ounces‚ and the female’s heart weighs about 11-12 ounces. A person’s blood pressure has major effects on their heart;
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SURFACE VIEW OF HEART Position‚ Shape and Size of the Heart: The human heart is located between the lungs in the thoracic cavity (i.e. it is not situated on the left side of the chest). The heart is a hollow‚ fibro-muscular organ and is somewhat conical in shape. It is about the size of one’s fist‚ measures about 12 cm in length and 9 cm in breadth. Its weight is about 300 g in an adult. The heart is enclosed in pericardium (a double- layered membranous sac). It protects the heart from mechanical
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