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Heart is one of the most important part of the body. It performs many vital functions that are essential for life. Without the functioning of heart there is no life. Heart is also considered as the pumping organ of the body. The main function of heart is to pump the blood throughout the body ("The Heart (Human Anatomy): Picture, Definition, Location In The Body, And Heart Problems"). Inside the body blood is considered as the most important mean of transport of oxygen ...

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Heart valve surgery is used for the repairing or replacement of valves of the heart that are diseased. The patients receive general anesthesia in this type of surgery whereby the surgeon makes a large surgical incision in the breastbone. The incision is meant to enable the surgeon to reach the aorta and the heart (Kato Paragraph 2). The relevance of stroke to the procedure of open-chest valve surgery is that it is one of the risks associated with cardiac surgery. Other risks include death, failure of the kidneys, cardiac arrest, irregular beats of the heart, and post-pericardiotomy syndrome (Kato ...

Lauren (2011) in “Pediatric Heart Murmurs: Evaluation and management in primary care,” gave an overview of the cardiac assessment, diagnosis of heart murmurs, and referral recommendations among children. Lauren noted that most of the heart murmurs were innocent resulting from a turbulent flow of blood in the pulmonary arteries or due to delayed cardiac development that leads to slight ductus arteriosus in neonates. Pathological heart murmurs result from ventricular septal defect, severe cases of patent ductus arteriosus or congenital heart diseases. The prevalence rate of heart murmurs among newborns is between 0.6% and 4.2%. About 90% of infants and ...