Cardiovascular System

By briannazinni1

  • Blood Transfusion

    Karl Landsteiner documented that when a man is giving a transfusion with animal blood the unknown blood corpuscles clump and broke apart in the blood vessels in the hemoglobin. Landsteiner also discovered that if two human bloods are transfused that could be the cause of shock, jaundice in his earlier attempts.

  • Discovery of Blood Transfusions

    Blood transfusions are the administration of donated blood products. It is the treatment of various conditions like trauma, blood disorders, and blood loss. He discovered that there are four different types of blood, A, B, AB, and O.

  • Atherosclerosis

    Felix Marchand introduced atherosclerosis and recommended that it was responsible for almost all obstructive processes in the arteries. Atherosclerosis is the buildup of fats, cholesterol,and other substances in artery walls. It occurs by the damage to the endothelium, which is caused by high blood pressure high cholesterol, and smoking.The arteries harden and narrow progressively slowing blood flow leading to heart attack, stroke, or other cardiovascular diseases.

  • First Heart Transplant

    Heart trnasplants would be performed because of heart damage, failure, deffects, or abnormal heart beats.
    Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed the first heart transplant on 53 year old Louis Washkansky who had a debilitating heart condition. After his first procedure heart transplants dropped, because they discovered that the body would reject the new tissues. New drugs and advances in tissue typing increased the survival rate of a heart transplant.

  • First Artificial Heart

    An artificial can replace failing ventricles and all heart valves. One advantage of an artificial heart is that they are always available. Robert Jarvik, MD created the first successful permanent artificial heart. The patient lived for 112 days after their procedure.

  • Heart Laser Approval

    U.S. government approves heart laser that will burn away unknown substances that are blocking the blood flow. The laser opens the blocked arteries and shines beams of light to vaporize the plaque buildup, and increases the blood flow.