Circulatory: Heart (Rheumatic, Valvular, Vascular), Heart Attack, Stroke, Arterial & Lymphatic Disorders
 The Circulatory System
The Circulatory System consists of the heart, arteries, capillaries, and veins, is the pumping mechanism that transports blood throughout the body.
Dynamically speaking, In the heart, the left ventricle contracts, pushing red blood cells into the aorta, the body's largest artery.From here, blood moves through a series of increasingly smaller arteries, until it reaches a capillary, the junction between arteries and veins.
Here oxygen molecules detach from the red blood cells and slip across the capillary wall into body tissue.Now de-oxygenated, blood begins its return to the heart.
It passes through increasingly larger veins to eventually reach the right atrium.It enters the right ventricle, which pumps it through the pulmonary arteries into the lungs, to pick up more oxygen.
Oxygenated, blood reenters the left atrium, moves into the left ventricle, and the blood's journey begins again.
All the components of the circulatory system have a functionality and thus can be effected by disease or trauma. In more specific terms, subjects like those listed below will fall into this category:
- Acute rheumatic fever
- Chronic rheumatic heart diseases, acute rheumatic fever, hypertensive diseases {high blood pressure],
- Ischaemic heart diseases [heart attack],
- Pulmonary heart disease and diseases of pulmonary circulation, other forms of heart disease,
- Cerebrovascular diseases [stroke],
- Diseases of arteries[aneurysms], arterioles and capillaries;
- Diseases of veins [phlebitis], lymphatic vessels and lymph nodes, not elsewhere classified, plus
- Other unspecified disorders of the circulatory system, will be covered in this category.
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