Last Friday he suffered a torn aorta, a large artery that carries blood from the heart to the body.

VOA: special.2010.12.18

If they're having a coronary artery bypass or they're having a heart transplant, then there's some period at which their normal heart - their heart is stopped and this machine assumes the functions of their heart.

病人在做冠状动脉搭桥手术,或者心脏移植手术时,病人自己的心脏,会停跳一段时间,而这台设备就能代替心脏工作

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It can help blood flow past a blockage in an artery.

VOA: special.2009.09.01

Heart failure is caused by high blood pressure or coronary artery disease, a narrowing of the arteries in the heart.

VOA: standard.2010.06.04

The device is a tiny sensor, implanted through a catheter in the heart's pulmonary artery.

VOA: standard.2010.06.04

Blood clots can block an artery and cause a heart attack.

VOA: standard.2010.03.04

"We think that they may be. We do know that people who are taken out of high tobacco smoke environments have a definite drop in developing coronary artery disease.

VOA: standard.2010.03.04