Across
- 4. exhaling to increase pressure in your chest to slow heart rate
- 11. left ventricular outflow tract
- 12. An opening between the left and right atria remains after birth and doesn't close properly
- 15. broken heart syndrome
- 16. measures cardiac output with each heartbeat
- 19. chemicals released in the bloodstream to fight an infection trigger inflammation throughout the body
- 22. hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- 23. A jelly-like mass of blood tissue formed by clotting factors in the blood
- 25. cardiac valve most often repaired
- 27. Implantable cardioverter device
- 28. A heart rate that is abnormally slow
- 30. rare disease where amyloid builds up in organs
- 31. "5th valve" in the heart located in the RA
- 32. coronary artery bypass graft
- 33. continued medical education
- 35. technique used to measure and assess the flow of blood through the heart's chambers and valve stenosis occurs when that valve narrows and blood cannot flow normally.
Down
- 1. Microscopically small blood vessels between arteries and veins that distribute oxygen-rich blood to the body’s tissues
- 2. the removal, isolation, or destruction of cardiac tissue or conduction pathways involved in
- 3. when an arterial vessel wall is damaged and blood leaks into surrounding tissue
- 5. when fluid fills the space between the heart muscle and pericardium
- 6. infarction A heart attack
- 7. cardiac valve most often replaced
- 8. the pressure of the blood in the circulatory system
- 9. blood vessels that carry oxygen-rich blood from your lungs to your heart
- 10. rare congenital disease where TV is misplaced high in the right ventricle
- 13. an electronic device sends an electric shock to stop an extremely rapid or irregular heartbeat
- 14. body surface area
- 17. blood clot that forms in a blood vessel in one part of the body and travels to another part
- 18. NO known cause
- 20. fainting, loss of consciousness, or dizziness which may be due to a change in cardiac rhythm (arrhythmia) or other causes
- 21. Left Ventricular Assist Device(LVAD) short-term portable life support
- 24. congestive heart failure
- 26. abnormal heart sound( loud,quiet or absent)
- 29. inflammation of the heart muscle
- 34. Electrophysiologic
