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The cardiovascular system in all vertebrates, consists of the heart and blood vessels. The circulatory system is further divided into two major circuits – a pulmonary circulation , and a systemic circulation .
The cardiovascular system comprises the heart, veins, arteries, and capillary beds. The atrioventricular (mitral and tricuspid) and semilunar (aortic and pulmonic) valves keep blood flowing in one direction through the heart, and valves in large veins keep blood flowing back toward the heart.
3 sie 2015 · The cardiovascular system (or circulatory system) is the system responsible for circulating blood throughout the dog’s body. It consists of the heart and blood vessels, namely arteries, veins and capillaries.
The heart is a muscular organ found in most animals. This organ pumps blood through the blood vessels. [1] Heart and blood vessels together make the circulatory system. [2] The pumped blood carries oxygen and nutrients to the tissue, while carrying metabolic waste such as carbon dioxide to the lungs. [3]
2 kwi 2023 · The following sections in this chapter will discuss the imaging characteristics of the normal canine and feline cardiovascular system, as well as abnormal variations for the identification of cardiovascular diseases.
Heart failure is an inability of the heart to maintain normal venous/capillary pressures, cardiac output, and/or systemic blood pressure that occurs secondarily to severe, overwhelming cardiac disease.
The diseases of greatest importance, because of their prevalence, are mitral regurgitation in dogs (degenerative mitral valve disease), hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in cats, dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) in dogs, arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy in Boxers and Bulldogs, and heartworm disease.
