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How a Healthy Heart Works

Your heart is meant to pump oxygen-rich blood and nutrients to organs and other parts around your body. The following figure demonstrates this. The Four Pumping Chambers of the Heart Veins carry blood lacking oxygen from the body to the heart’s right atrium. There, the blood comes to the right ventricle, which pumps this blood […]

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Congenital Heart Defects

The term “heart defect” can be the name for a variety of heart problems, but it’s usually used to describe defects in the wall, or septum, dividing the upper or lower heart chambers. It may also describe problems with the heart valve. The more common defects are listed below. Atrial septal defect (ASD). This is […]