Diagnostics | Heart & Circulation | Diseases | Diagnoseklinik München
When the heart doesn`t pump right…
The human heart is about as big as a closed fist and is made up of special muscle cells.The heart operates like a pressure-suction pump two circulations connected one after the other: the pulmonary circulation and the systemic circulation. A healthy heart beats day after day more than 100,000 times daily, and pumps blood through the body with each beat. The blood is pushed through the vessels by means of the blood pressure. Because of this, blood clotting and clotting inhibition are two critical mechanisms of the body. Blood clotting protects the body from bleeding; clotting inhibition guarantees the steady blood flow and with it the supply of nutrients and oxygen to the organs and tissues.
Diseases of the heart and circulation
If the heart and circulation are ill, the consequences are far reaching and a big chunk of quality of life is lost. There are many such diseases. One of them is coronary artery disease. Narrowed coronary arteries cause decreased circulation of the heart muscle. One of the main triggers for this is arteriosclerosis: calcium deposits develop on the inner walls of the blood vessels; they impede the blood fow, impair the circulation of the organs or cut them off completely from the blood supply.
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