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Heart Disease: The Beat Goes On!

    by Dr. Nancy J. Hayes, DVM

What's Normal?

 

One: The normal heart is made of of four chambers:

  • The atria which gather the blood and pump it into the ventricles, and
  • The ventricles which pump the blood out to the body.
  • The left side of the heart pumps blood to the body, while
  • the right side of the heart pumps blood to the lungs.
  • Valves are the little flappers that separate the two chambers.
A drawings of a normal heart
Would you like to listen to some normal heartbeat sounds?
Normal 1                     Normal 2

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