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    The pulmonary circulation is a division of the circulatory system in all vertebrates. The circuit begins with deoxygenated blood returned from the body...
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    circulatory system has two divisions, a systemic circulation or circuit, and a pulmonary circulation or circuit. Some sources use the terms cardiovascular...
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    A pulmonary artery is an artery in the pulmonary circulation that carries deoxygenated blood from the right side of the heart to the lungs. The largest...
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  • Pulmonary Circulation is a peer-reviewed medical journal covering the fields of pulmonary circulation and pulmonary vascular disease. It was established...
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    associated pulmonary hemorrhage or infarction. As smaller pulmonary emboli tend to lodge in more peripheral areas without collateral circulation, they are...
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    Pulmonary hypertension (PH or PHTN) is a condition of increased blood pressure in the arteries of the lungs. Symptoms include shortness of breath, fainting...
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    the left atrium of the heart. The pulmonary veins are part of the pulmonary circulation. There are four main pulmonary veins, two from each lung – an inferior...
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    returning from the fetal circulation. This blood is pumped into the pulmonary artery. At the pulmonary artery, it is met with high pulmonary vascular resistance...
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    Lung (redirect from Pulmonary)
    segments and pulmonary lobules. The lungs have a unique blood supply, receiving deoxygenated blood from the heart in the pulmonary circulation for the purposes...
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    discoveries relevant to the field of pulmonology was the discovery of pulmonary circulation. Originally, it was thought that blood reaching the right side of...
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    and passes to the right ventricle. From here, it is pumped into pulmonary circulation to the lungs, where it receives oxygen and gives off carbon dioxide...
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    Glenn procedure, focuses on separating the systemic and pulmonary circulation once pulmonary vascular resistance drops. This is accomplished by removing...
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    first to describe the pulmonary circulation of the blood. The work of Ibn al-Nafis regarding the right sided (pulmonary) circulation pre-dates the later...
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    carrying waste products away from them. It is complementary to the pulmonary circulation that brings deoxygenated blood to the lungs and carries oxygenated...
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    inability to pump the blood out of the pulmonary circulation at a sufficient rate resulting in elevation in pulmonary wedge pressure and edema. Pericardial...
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    techniques have been proposed. Because of the large compliance of pulmonary circulation, it provides an indirect measure of the left atrial pressure. For...
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    systemic circulation to one or more parts of the body. Exceptions that carry deoxygenated blood are the pulmonary arteries in the pulmonary circulation that...
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  • resistance (TPR), while the resistance offered by the pulmonary circulation is known as the pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR). Systemic vascular resistance...
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    Coronary circulation is the circulation of blood in the arteries and veins that supply the heart muscle (myocardium). Coronary arteries supply oxygenated...
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    as pulmonary heart disease, the cause must originate in the pulmonary circulation system; RVH due to a systemic defect is not classified as pulmonary heart...
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    exceptions are those of the pulmonary and fetal circulations which carry oxygenated blood to the heart. In the systemic circulation, arteries carry oxygenated...
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    system. Circulation is split into pulmonary circulation—during which the right ventricle pumps oxygen-depleted blood to the lungs through the pulmonary trunk...
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    receives blood from the pulmonary circulation, and the right atrium receives blood from the venae cavae of the systemic circulation. During the cardiac cycle...
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    megakaryocytes can bypass the breakdown within the pulmonary circulation and enter the systemic circulation. They are then trapped within the capillary beds...
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  • fetal circulation is a condition caused by a failure in the systemic circulation and pulmonary circulation to convert from the antenatal circulation pattern...
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    (September 1961). "The clinical significance of the pulmonary collateral circulation". Circulation. 24 (3). American Heart Association: 677–690. doi:10...
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  • pulmonary circulation 417.0 Arteriovenous fistula of pulmonary vessels 417.1 Aneurysm of pulmonary artery 417.8 Other specified diseases of pulmonary circulation...
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    fibrinolytic system that dissolves clots that may have arrived in the pulmonary circulation by embolism, often from the deep veins in the legs. They also release...
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    caused by pulmonary embolism. Because of the dual blood supply to the lungs from both the bronchial circulation and the pulmonary circulation, this tissue...
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    through the morphologic right ventricle; i.e., the systemic and pulmonary circulations are placed in series with the functional single ventricle. Whereas...
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