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Q: Is the pulmonary circulation a high pressure circulation?
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Is the pulmonary circulation a high or low pressure circulation?

It is both: Higher pressure incoming and Lower pressure on the extruding end.


What diagnosis means that the blood pressure in the pulmonary circulation is high?

Pulmonary hypertension, which is a serious illness and can lead to heart failure.


What is another name for the circulation of blood from lungs to heart to body?

Pulmonary circulation Pulmonary circulation pulmonary circulation pulmonary circulation


Is the left side of the heart is high pressure or low pressure?

The left side of the heart is part of a high-pressure circuit. The left side of the heart must pump blood throughout the body, requiring higher pressure than the pulmonary circulation.


How does the pulmonary circulation work in your body?

Much like the systemic circulation, but at a lower pressure: Blood flows from the right ventricle through pulmonary artery to lungs where the gases are exchanged to pulmonary vein to left atria.


How is the heart involved in pulmonary circulation?

Right side of the heart is involved in pulmonary circulation. This circulation is called, at times, as lesser circulation, as against the greater or systemic circulation. Blood that flows through the lesser and greater circulation is same in amount. But there is gross difference between the two. You have interstitial compartment in the systemic circulation. This is maintained through high blood pressure there. You do not have the same in pulmonary circulation. What you need here is simple blood flow, with out formation of the interstitial compartment. For that you have blood systolic blood pressure of about 25 mm of mercury. The blood pressure in the capillaries is about 15 mm of the mercury. The oncotic pressure of the blood proteins is about 22 mm of mercury. So very little fluid is leaked out to keep the alveoli wet. Some times in diseased condition more fluid is leaked out in the alveoli, to give rise to pulmonary oedema.


What are the two main circulatory routes in the body?

You have lesser circulation or the pulmonary circulation. Blood goes to lungs in this system from the right side of heart. You have greater circulation or the systemic circulation. Blood goes to all over the rest of body through this circulation. The amount of blood that flows is same in both the systems. You have about 25/15 mm of Hg pressure in pulmonary circulation. You have about 120/80 mm of Hg pressure in systemic circulation.


Which of the two path is short the pulmonary circulation or the systemic circulation?

i think pulmonary circulation


What organ in the heart where pulmonary circulation is started?

Your right side of the heart pumps blood in the pulmonary circulation. The pulmonary circulation should start from the origin of the pulmonary aorta.


What are the two types of circulation of blood in the body?

Pulmonary and systemic


What is the circulation called when it travels from the heart to the lungs and back?

Pulmonary circulation is the movement of blood from the heart, to the lungs, and back.


What conditions are contraindicated for myocardial resection?

right heart failure, elevated left ventricular enddiastolic pressures, and pulmonary hypertension (high blood pressure in the circulation around the lungs).