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Please add profiles to the specific disease or cause of death if you can.== Heart disease is a word used to describe many different conditions affecting the heart or blood vessels. ==Types==1) There are many cardiovascular diseases involving the blood vessels. They are known as vascular diseases :* Coronary artery disease (also known as coronary heart disease and ischemic heart disease) also **...
The Mitral Valve, located between the left heart chambers, left atrium and left ventricle, doesn’t work properly. It may not be closing properly, which causes blood to leak backward to the left atrium (regurgitation), or the valve may be narrowed (stenosis). As a result, the heart does not pump enough blood out of the left ventricular chamber to supply the body with oxygen-filled blood.The hear...
Tags: endocarditis, endocardium, heart valves, bacterial endocarditis, infective endocarditis, Endocarditis is an infection of the endocardium, which is the inner lining of the heart chambers and heart valves. Other structures that may be involved include the interventricular septum, the chordae tendineae, the mural endocardium, or the surfaces of intracardiac devices. * Subdivisions of Endocar...
Staph infections are caused by staphylococcus bacteria, types of germs commonly found on the skin or in the nose of even healthy individuals. Most of the time, these bacteria cause no problems or result in relatively minor skin infections. * The generic name Staphylococcus is derived from the Greek word "staphyle," meaning bunch of grapes, and "kokkos," meaning granule. The bacteria, when seen ...
Please add to this project only if you don’t find one of the 3 listed below==* If you need one for Pericarditis or Endocarditis, please see these discussions: ** Cause of Death Projects needed??? (links to pg 1)** Medical Portal project--Needs, questions, concerns & related issues Discussion (this links to pg 1)*** Use for survivors...===Carditis, or inflammation of the heart , is most convenie...