Can you live without your main artery?

Answer 1

No. The pulmonary artery carries deoxygenated blood from the right ventricle of the heart to the lungs, where it will be reoxygenated. If a person was lacking this artery, (1) the circuit of blood throughout the body would be incomplete, and (2) blood could never be reoxygenated. Once the oxygen was removed from the blood by body tissues in the systemic circuit, the tissues would asphyxiate.

I will say no but my little brother of 9 years old has a cardiac problem. if i tell you....

My brother has no pulmonary artery, has a large VSD, his red blood cells are 20.9. A beautiful boy whose name is Jeffrey. I forget to say, sometimes he gets water in the lungs, he makes fever which is over 39-40 degrees. Two weeks ago he removed 80ml of blood to throw away. Every one says that he is a miraculous boy because no one can live at that stage. I live in the Indian Ocean, doctors from America, India, Belgium and other countries had come to see him but they were puzzled...

All our family can do is to pray Jesus

FROM LOIC KEBLE

Answer 2

It's called Pulmonary atresia, my older brother was born with this condition and only lived 3 days. But, this was even before ultrasounds. Today it can be caught through ultrasound and by mapping blood flow in the fetal heart. If caught in time the baby will have to go through major surgeries days after birth, and then periodically throughout their lives.

Answer 3

No. Think of arteries as highways connected to veins which are like roads. Without roads and highways, vehicles would never be able to reach their destination. So without arteries and veins, blood would never reach parts of the body. The heart would have nothing to pump. Almost everything in your body is essential or we would all be dead

Answer 4

No

Answer 5

no

Answer 6

No.