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It is a type of organ that can be found in all animals with a
circulatory system. This organ helps pump our blood throughout
the whole body.
Aorta: This is the largest artery (blood vessel that carries blood away from
the heart) in our body. Aorta is connected from the left ventricle of the
heart to the abdomen (belly).
Superior vena cava: It is a vein that carries deoxygenated blood from the
body to the heart’s right atrium.
Pulmonary trunk: The“Pulmonary artery” carries deoxygenated blood
from the heart to the lung.
Left atrium: It is one of the four chambers of our heart in our body. It
receives the oxygenated blood from the pulmonary veins.
Pulmonary Veins: It is a large blood vessel or a vein that carries oxygenated
blood from lungs to the left atrium.
Right Ventricle: It is one of the four chambers of our heart. It receives
deoxygenated blood from the right atrium.
Left Ventricle: It is one of the four chambers of our heart. It receives
oxygenated blood from the left atrium.
Inferior Vena Cava: Large veins that carry deoxygenated blood from the
lower half of the body into the right atrium of the heart.
A heart transplant or a cardiac transplant, is a surgical transplant method
used on patients when they have heart failure or severe coronary artery
disease.
Norman Shumway is known as the father of heart
transplantation however the world's first adult human
heart transplant was performed by a South African
cardiac surgeon named Christiaan Barnard. Barnard
performed the first transplant on Louis Washkansky on
December 3, 1967 at the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape
Town, South Africa. Now many doctors and surgeons
recommend this procedure.
Can people who didn’t donate their organs, receive one when
they need it?
Should an elderly person receive a donor organ?
Should people who are more important in society receive donor
organs before lower class citizens?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aorta
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_vena_cava
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulmonary_trunk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_atrium
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulmonary_Veins
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_Ventricle
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