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by scorpio24v » Fri Aug 14, 2009 9:05 am
That will be the Bicuspid valve, the one between left atrium(from the lungs) to left ventricle , up the semi lunar valve to the aorta(main artery out). Pacemakers are often used when the stimulus from the vagas nerve (10th cranial) to the sino atrial node on the heart, get blocked /intermittant and thus cause a heart missfire (fibrilation)
Heart surgery is now considered to be profoundly succesful these days, so he will prolly be fit as a butchers dog in no time.
Looking at the heart through an engineers eyes, I think big G generally made a good job in the design dept, when you get into anatomy and physiology, its a miracle that things dont go wrong more often.
Good luck
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