The Heart

Did you know that your heart beats even when you are sleeping.  Cool, huh?  Your heart beats about 20,000,000,000 times in a lifetime.

There are lots of parts in your heart.  The first part of your heart is the right atrium.  Next, you go through the tricuspid valve.  Then you enter the right ventricle.  Then you go through the pulmonary valve and enter the left atrium.  Now you go through the mitral valve.  Last, you enter the left ventricle.

What does your heart do?  What do you think your heart does?  Your heart is very busy.  It pumps blood from your heart to your lungs and also to your body.  Inside your blood are little red blood cells that ride to the parts of your body on your bloodstream.  That’s not all!  Your heart also keeps you alive.  Without your heart, you would be dead.

What can happen to your heart?  Patent Foramen Ovale is the name for having a hole in your heart.  You can have a heart defect, which means that you might have to take medication.  You could also have an artificial heart.  Some things can be fixed.  One thing you can do is angioplasty surgery.  They put a tiny balloon into a blocked blood vessel.  The balloon inflates with fluid.  As the balloon fills, it flattens the plaque, and it opens up the vessel.  You can get an artificial heart if it can’t be fixed.

I hope you know more about your heart than you did!

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