Heart test, EPS
If a person needs a pacemaker. (This can usually be decided without an EPS but once in a while EPS is necessary.)
Why a person is fainting (if other tests to find a basis have failed to find one).
If a person is prone to a fast heart rhythm (tachycardia) and guide the appropriate treatment for this abnormal heart rhythm (arrhythmia).
Whether past treatment for a fast heart rhythm has been satisfactory.
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cardiomyopathy (disease of the heart muscle); severe coronary artery disease (in which the heart’s blood vessels become blocked and the heart muscle is damaged); and congenital heart disease (birth defects of the heart). A transplanted heart functions differently from the old one. Because the nerves leading to the heart are cut during the operation, the […]
- Heart valves
There are four heart valves. All are one-way valves. Blood entering the heart first passes through the tricuspid valve and then the pulmonary valve. After returning from the lungs, the blood passes through the mitral (bicuspid) valve and exits via the aortic valve.
- Heart ventricle
One of the two lower chambers of the heart. The right ventricle receives blood from the right atrium and pumps it into the lungs via the pulmonary artery, and the left ventricle receives blood from the left atrium and pumps it into the circulation system via the aorta.
- Heart, artificial
A human-made heart that is used to replace a diseased or malfunctioning heart when a donor organ is not available.
- Heart, left
The left atrium and left ventricle.