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Cardiovascular Disorders Hemophilia • The body loses one or more of it’s clotting factors. • The body is not able to stop bleeding as well as it should. • There are several different hereditary deficiencies • 18,000 people in the U.S. have hemophilia • • • • • Anemia- a condition in which the oxygen carrying capacity of the blood is reduced Iron deficiency Pernicious Hemolytic Aplastic Sickle cell Infectious mononucleosis • Caused by the Epstein-Barr virus • Elevated white blood cell count • As with most viruses it must play its course, for a few weeks. Leukemia • Cancer of the blood • Overproduction of non functioning white blood cells Septicemia • Toxins or disease causing bacteria growing in the blood. • Also known as “blood poisoning” Pericarditis • Inflammation of the pericardium • Causes a painful rubbing between heart and pericardium Myocardial infarction • Infarction refers to death of an area due to interrupted blood supply Heart Murmur • A disorder of a heart valve(s) • Stenosis- narrowing of a valve Atherosclerosis Coronary artery bypass Coronary angioplasty Aneursym Thrombosis- a blood clot • Embolism- when a clot lodges in a blood vessel. • Pulmonary embolism- lodges and obstructs blood flow between heart and lungs
