Across
- 4. within
- 5. between
- 6. delicate blood vessels that exist throughout your body
- 8. above, excessive
- 11. a preformed pigtail catheter that has a gentle rightward curve with a second 90° leftward curve at the distal aspect of the catheter
- 13. absence of
- 14. Cardiovascular disease
- 15. Implantable cardioverter defibrillator
- 17. the cells responsible for generating contractile force in the intact heart
- 19. Transcatheter aortic valve replacement
- 22. Damage or disease in the heart's major blood vessels
- 23. blood vessels that distribute oxygen-rich blood to your entire body
- 24. diagnose and treat some heart conditions
Down
- 1. make up the lining of your blood vessels
- 2. Disorders and conditions that affect the aorta
- 3. designed for enlarging interatrial openings
- 7. include guide catheters, stent-retrievers, microcatheters, aspiration catheters, and aspiration pump systems
- 9. slow
- 10. the narrowing or blockage of the vessels that carry blood from the heart to the legs
- 12. A blockage of blood flow to the heart muscle
- 13. a catheter-based procedure used to treat thrombolysis
- 16. Cardiac resynchronization therapy
- 18. Coronary artery bypass graft surgery
- 20. occurs when something blocks blood supply to part of the brain or when a blood vessel in the brain bursts
- 21. A blood vessel that carries blood that is low in oxygen content from the body back to the heart.
