Cardiovascular Diseases
Learners complete a crossword puzzle with terms that relate to common diseases and disorders of the cardiovascular system.
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- Diagnostic test used to record intracardiac pressures and perform coronary angiograms (to detect arterioscleosis) through fluoroscopic visualization
- Sudden, unexpected cessation of cardiac activity
- Right ventricular enlargement as a sequela to primary lung disease
- Mitral valve ____ ; protrusion of one or more of the cusps of the mitral valve back into the left atrium during ventricular contraction
- Hardening of cusps of the mitral valve preventing complete opening for passage of blood from left atrium into left ventricle
- Inflammation of the muscular walls of the heart
- Cardiac compression of heart muscle and restriction of heart movement caused by blood or fluid trapped in the pericardial sac
- Inability of heart to pump enough blood throughout the body
- Death of myocardial tissue caused by ischemia
- Noninflammatory disease of cardiac muscle resulting in enlargement of myocardium and ventricular dysfunction
- Condition of abnormally high blood pressure (most common type)
- Mitral ___ ; failure of mitral valve to close completely, allows blood from left ventricle to flow back into the left atrium
- Collapse of cardiovascular system due to anaphylaxis, trauma, respiratory failure, etc.; life threatening situation
- Inflammation of the sac that encloses and protects the heart
- Therapeutic procedure for coronary arteriosclerosis in which a balloon catheter is passed into coronary artery & inflated (abbrev.)
- Disease characterized by plaque in coronary arteries resulting in atherosclerosis and subsequent narrowing of arteries
- Diagnostic test used to record the electrical activity of the heart
- Therapeutic procedure used to treat occluded coronary arteries in which new anastomoses are created to bypass circulation around obstructions (abbrev)
- Inflammation of the lining and the valves of the heart; characterized by growths on cardiac valves
- Chest pain after exertion resulting from reduced oxygen supply to the myocardium
- Accumulation of fluid in the lungs
- Systemic inflammatory and autoimmune disease involving the joints and cardiac tissue
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