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A process used to harden unsaturated liquid vegetable oils into saturated fats.
Industry:Health care
A document written in "good" health which informs your family and health care providers of your wishes for extended medical treatment in times of emergency.
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A nuclear scan that evaluates the pumping function of the ventricles by determining the heart's ejection fraction.
Industry:Health care
Pulmonary hypertension is high blood pressure of the pulmonary arteries.
Industry:Health care
Discomfort or pressure, usually in the chest, caused by a temporarily inadequate blood supply to the heart muscle. Discomfort may also be felt in the neck, jaw, or arms.
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A mechanical device placed in people with end-stage heart disease whose hearts do not pump a sufficient amount of blood to keep the body healthy (heart failure). The device aids in the pumping function of the blood.
Industry:Health care
The pericardium is the sac around the heart. In people with constrictive pericarditis, this sac becomes inflamed and scarred leading to shrinkage of the pericardium. This can prevent the heart from filling to its full extent.
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Normally, the electrical impulse travels down both the right and left bundle branches at the same speed and the ventricles contract at the same time. If there is a block in one of the branches, it's called a bundle branch block. A bundle branch block causes one ventricle to contract just after the other ventricle.
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Artery located in the chest wall and used for coronary artery bypass surgery. Most commonly kept intact at its origin, and sewn to the coronary artery beyond the site of blockage. If the surgeon removes the mammary artery from its origin to use as a bypass graft, it is then called a "free" mammary artery bypass graft.
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