Let’s face it: most of us have had difficulty drawing a heart diagram in school ... and he kept her in his left ventricle. Namitha is a student’s neighbour who has “long hair and big ...

The right ventricle pumps the blood to the lungs, where the blood releases waste gases and picks up oxygen. The newly oxygen-rich blood (shown in red) returns to the heart and enters the left atrium.

In hypertension, increased pressure in the arteries can eventually cause the heart’s left ventricle to thicken (left ventricular hypertrophy) and the left atrium to enlarge in response.

The left-hand side pumps oxygenated blood around the body. Each side of the heart consists of an atrium and a ventricle which are two connected chambers. The atria (plural of atrium) are where the ...

Diastolic heart failure causes a stiff left ventricle that prevents the heart from relaxing between beats. Common symptoms include coughing, tiredness, and shortness of breath. Systolic and ...

Lastly, VT itself can sometimes have a RBBB pattern if it arises from the left ventricle. If tachycardia is present — that is, heart rate greater than 100 beats per minute — in a RBBB pattern ...

Babies born with otherwise-lethal single ventricle heart defects can gain decades of life from early surgical intervention, but their lives are still fraught with medical complications that ...

The left-hand side pumps oxygenated blood around the body. Each side of the heart consists of an atrium and a ventricle which are two connected chambers. The atria (plural of atrium) are where the ...