Cardiovascular System

Cardiovascular system is a system that gives facilities the transport of a variety of substances, and to the body's cells. The system consists of a driving organ called the heart, and the channel system consisting of an artery that carries blood from the heart, and veins that supply blood to the heart.

The human heart is a hollow heart has two atria and two ventricles. The heart is a muscular organ that is able to push the blood to various parts of the body. The human heart is shaped like a cone and the size of a fist, located on the left hand of the chest cavity. The heart is covered by a membrane called the pericardium.

The heart is responsible for maintaining the flow of blood with the help of a number of valves that make it up. To assure the continuity of the circulation, the heart contracts periodically. The heart muscle to contract continuously without experiencing fatigue. Contraction of the human heart is a myogenic contraction, the contraction begins excitatory strength of the heart muscle itself and not from the nerve.

Endocardium, pericardium and Myocardium can be involved in a variety of hemodynamic abnormalities, inflammation, neoplasm, and congenital. Endocarditis is an infection of the heart valves and the endothelial surface caused by the direct invasion of bacteria or other organisms and cause deformity of the valve blade. Diseases of the pericardium revealed by liquid deposits (called pericardial effusion), inflammation (ie pericarditis). Myocarditis is inflammation of the heart muscle or myocardium. In general myocarditis caused by infectious diseases, but may be as a result of allergic reactions to drugs and toxic effects of chemicals radiation. Myocarditis can be caused by infection, allergic reactions, and toxic reactions.

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