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Pulmonary Vascular Diseases: A Case Study
The term pulmonary vascular disease is used for many disorders caused by poor blood flow between your heart and lungs. Like any other disease, as Pulmonary vascular disease gets worse, it can also affect the rest of our body. Oxygen rich blood travels from the heart, to the lungs, and returns through the pulmonary veins to the left side of the heart. This process continually refills the blood with oxygen, and lets carbon dioxide be exhaled and PVD can develop if something changes this sequence
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Dr Deepak Muthreja
Consultant Interventional Pulmonologist, Vivek Hospitals, Nagpur
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The term pulmonary vascular disease is used for many disorders caused by poor blood flow between your heart and lungs. Like any other disease, as Pulmonary vascular disease gets worse, it can also affect the rest of our body. Oxygen rich blood travels from the heart, to the lungs, and returns through the pulmonary veins to the left side of the heart. This process continually refills the blood with oxygen, and lets carbon dioxide be exhaled and PVD can develop if something changes this sequence
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The term pulmonary vascular disease is used for many disorders caused by poor blood flow between your heart and lungs. Like any other disease, as Pulmonary vascular disease gets worse, it can also affect the rest of our body. Oxygen rich blood travels from the heart, to the lungs, and returns through the pulmonary veins to the left side of the heart. This process continually refills the blood with oxygen, and lets carbon dioxide be exhaled and PVD can develop if something changes this sequence
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The term pulmonary vascular disease is used for many disorders caused by poor blood flow between your heart and lungs. Like any other disease, as Pulmonary vascular disease gets worse, it can also affect the rest of our body. Oxygen rich blood travels from the heart, to the lungs, and returns through the pulmonary veins to the left side of the heart. This process continually refills the blood with oxygen, and lets carbon dioxide be exhaled and PVD can develop if something changes this sequence
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The term pulmonary vascular disease is used for many disorders caused by poor blood flow between your heart and lungs. Like any other disease, as Pulmonary vascular disease gets worse, it can also affect the rest of our body. Oxygen rich blood travels from the heart, to the lungs, and returns through the pulmonary veins to the left side of the heart. This process continually refills the blood with oxygen, and lets carbon dioxide be exhaled and PVD can develop if something changes this sequence