2. The Natural Heart
The heart is a cardiac involuntary
muscle responsible for distributing
oxygen throughout the body. The
heart you are born with has four
valves. The two bringing low- oxygen
blood to the heart are the mitral and
tricuspid valves. The two that take
away oxygen-filled blood are the aortic
and pulmonary valves.
Sometimes these hearts fail, for a
number of reasons. One very common
cause for this is a clot in these main
valves. This causes the body and
sometimes the heart itself to have not
enough oxygen. When this
happens, the heart “panics” and starts
to beat irregularly to restore oxygen to
the body. This can cause the heart to
stop from exhaustion, and results in a
large lack of oxygen throughout the
body. This is known as a “heart attack”
and can result in a stroke or other
complications. Recent medical
advances have made survival of these
problems much easier, and very
recently, the artificial heart has
become a suitable solution.
3. Looking to The Future
While heart transplants are
possible now, and artificial hearts are
not as incredibly, they are still a very
promising area of science to hold on to.
With heart disease becoming a highly
common health problem, real human
hearts are not easy to come by. Keeping
an artificial heart as a backup option is VS.
very smart, as most people do not have
very much time to wait for a new heart.
Also, artificial hearts can be better than
real ones in some ways. The first is that
they are interchangeable. Should one of
these fail, they can be replaced the
same way every time. In addition, a new
human heart can be rejected by a body
it is transplanted in. Complications alone
from this can cause even death. An
artificial heart is seen a neatral
though, and will be accepted by the
body.
