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to provide a continuing supply of blood evev if one the vessles is damaged.
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What is the purpose of systemic circulation?
The purpose of systemic circulation is to carry blood from the heart to the body. It then returns the blood back to the heart.
What is collateral circulation?
Some areas in your body are supplied by more than one blood vessel. These extra vessels are called collateral blood vessels. For example, there is a major collateral vessel in the thigh. This is used by cardiologists to perform a heart bypass when the heart's own vessels are blocked.
What is the adaptation of the heart to allow blood flow to be redirected through other small vessels of the heart called?
The heart's natural ability to adapt by redirection is called collateral circulation.
Do all areas of the body have collateral circulation?
Collateral circulation is the formation of new blood vessels to circulate blood. Not all areas of the body have collateral circulation since it is formed by normally closed arteries.
Define the term collateral blood flow and describe how this and other factors affect the development of a stroke?
When a collateral vessel on the heart enlarges, it lets blood flow from an opencoronary artery to an adjacent one or further downstream on the same artery. In this way, collateral vessels grow and form a kind of "detour" around a blockage. This collateral circulation provides alternate routes of blood flow to the heart in cases when the heart isn't getting the blood supply it needs. When an artery in the brain is blocked due to stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA), open collateral vessels can allow blood to "detour" around the blockage. This collateral circulation restores blood flow to the affected part of the brain.
When damaged hearts develop new blood vessels to nourish the area of the heart being starved for oxygen it is called?
It is called collateral circulation.
What provides collateral circulation to a part?
Anastomosis
Regions of collateral circulation in upper extremity?
Axillary, brachial, and subuvian.
What is circulation from the heart to all parts of the body back to the heart?
Systemic circulation. Compared with pulmonary circulation which is from the heart through the lungs and back to the heart.
What is the Circulation between heart and heart?
Is called pulmonary circulation .
What circulation from the heart to all parts of the body back to the heart?
Systemic circulation. Compared with pulmonary circulation which is from the heart through the lungs and back to the heart.
What is the circulation from the heart to all parts of the body back to the heart?
Systemic circulation. Compared with pulmonary circulation which is from the heart through the lungs and back to the heart.
