Pulmonary Vascular Disease Clinic

Pulmonary Vascular Disease Clinic

Pulmonary Vascular Disease refers to the many medical disorders affecting the blood vessels connecting the heart and lungs, thereby affecting blood flow from the heart to the lungs and back to the heart again. Blood that has low oxygen content and large amounts of waste, including carbon dioxide after traveling throughout the body, travels to the right side of the heart to both the lungs through the pulmonary arteries. In the lungs, carbon dioxide is released into the air and fresh oxygen is loaded into the blood. This blood reaches the left side of the heart through the pulmonary veins. This entire circuit is a low-pressure system and these blood vessels have a large capacity to carry extra flow during exercise and demand states. The left side of the heart then pumps the oxygen-rich blood to all parts of the body. Oxygen is the petrol with which the body works and the heart is its motor; the lung is the petrol station.

Pulmonary Vascular Diseases cause changes to this vital process and if untreated, can result in serious medical conditions that could affect all parts of the body. Typically, these diseases develop slowly and thesymptoms may only be noticed when it has reached an advanced stage because of the large reserve of the lungs. Often there are no clear causes for the onset of PVD, but in many cases, it can be inherited from parents or acquired due to inhaled or oral toxins and due to advanced heart and lung ailments.