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    Narrowed coronary arteries can lead to a build up of fatty deposits and plaque in the arteries, reducing blood flow to the heart muscle. High cholesterol levels can also lead to this blockage. A faulty heart valve can cause heart failure as the heart has trouble pumping blood effectively. Heart muscle failure occurs when the heart becomes too weak to pump sufficient blood. Treatments include stents to widen narrowed arteries, statins to lower cholesterol, valve replacement to fix faulty valves, artificial hearts to pump blood until transplant, and heart transplants to replace diseased hearts with healthy donor hearts.

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    Narrowed coronary arteries can lead to a build up of fatty deposits and plaque in the arteries, reducing blood flow to the heart muscle. High cholesterol levels can also lead to this blockage. A faulty heart valve can cause heart failure as the heart has trouble pumping blood effectively. Heart muscle failure occurs when the heart becomes too weak to pump sufficient blood. Treatments include stents to widen narrowed arteries, statins to lower cholesterol, valve replacement to fix faulty valves, artificial hearts to pump blood until transplant, and heart transplants to replace diseased hearts with healthy donor hearts.

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    Heart Problems

    Uploaded by

    Marina Carranza
    Narrowed coronary arteries can lead to a build up of fatty deposits and plaque in the arteries, reducing blood flow to the heart muscle. High cholesterol levels can also lead to this blockage. A faulty heart valve can cause heart failure as the heart has trouble pumping blood effectively. Heart muscle failure occurs when the heart becomes too weak to pump sufficient blood. Treatments include stents to widen narrowed arteries, statins to lower cholesterol, valve replacement to fix faulty valves, artificial hearts to pump blood until transplant, and heart transplants to replace diseased hearts with healthy donor hearts.

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    Heart Problems and Treatments

    Task 1
    Each box below is a problem that can happen with the heart.
    Underneath each box, drag the consequence of the problem to the correct position.

    Narrowed High cholesterol Faulty valve Heart muscle


    coronary arteries levels in blood in the heart failure

    Drag these boxes into the empty ones above:

    Less
    Build up of fatty
    Heart stops Tiredness/ out of oxygen/glucose
    deposits / plaque in
    pumping blood breath gets to heart
    arteries
    muscle

    Task 2
    Match the treatment with the description of how the treatment helps.

    Description of how the treatment


    Treatment
    helps

    Allows blood to be pumped while


    STATINS
    waiting for a heart transplant

    STENT Lowers blood cholesterol

    Replaces faulty heart with one that is


    VALVE REPLACEMENT
    healthy

    ARTIFICIAL HEART Widens narrowed arteries

    HEART TRANSPLANT Restores full blood flow in the heart

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