Your heart is an amazing organ. It continuously pumps oxygen and nutrient-rich blood throughout your body to sustain life. This fist-sized powerhouse beats (expands and contracts) 100,000 times ...

Here’s how it works. The circulatory system consists of three independent systems that work together: the heart (cardiovascular), lungs (pulmonary), and arteries, veins, coronary and portal ...

The five vital organs in the human body are the brain, heart, lungs, kidneys, and liver. Other organs include the gallbladder, pancreas, and stomach. Organ systems, such as the nervous system ...

"Our results hammer home the message that heart-lung machines are not to be blamed ... patients had to trace on paper a complex diagram, which was then taken away, and then redraw the diagram ...

That changed earlier this year when surgeons at Duke University Hospital transplanted a heart and two lungs into 17-year-old Jesica Santillan in a rare and difficult operation. The hospital ...

Patients thought mental decline was linked to heart-lung machines Surgeons started doing %22off-pump%22 bypass surgeries Researcher%3A Mental decline was temporary ...