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| | STS Patient Information Glossary |
 | | The term minimally invasive heart surgery is used to describe a variety of approaches that are being explored to reduce the trauma of surgery and to speed recovery. | | | Heart failure is a degenerative condition that occurs when the heart muscle weakens and the ventricle no longer contracts normally. | | | Diastole is the portion of the heart's pumping cycle during which the muscle relaxes to let the heart fill. |
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| | Patent 4144595: Artificial heart chamber |
| | The heart base 3 is then attached to the device and the heart base 3 likewise consists of a polymeric plastic which is provided at its ends with a toroidal reinforcement 11 so that the toroidal reinforcement embraces the ellipsoid within the range of the equator 10. | | | The centers of the openings 12 and 13 through which blood is admitted and ejected from the valves of the chamber are arranged upon the meridian of the ellipsoid, which is the line of intersection of the plane of symmetry 2 with the ellipsoid. | | | Subsequently, the retaining rings for the heart valves are placed upon the openings provided within the housing and then the polymer of which the upper part and the diaphragm 4 consists is applied again on the upper part 5 so that the toroid 11 of the heart base 3 will be sufficiently covered. |
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http://www.freepatentsonline.com/4144595.html
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| | Heart Failure |
| | Heart transplant surgery replaces a patient's diseased heart with a donor heart when all medical treatments or cardiovascular surgeries have failed. | | | Using implantable cardiac devices (ICD), such as pacemakers, electrophysiologists are able to treat heart failure patients who experience atrial fibrillation or those at risk for sudden cardiac death. | | | Diuretics such as Bumex or Lasix and Glycosides such as Digoxin and Digitalis are effective in providing symptomatic relief and are many times the first line of treatment to improve patient’s life quality. |
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http://www.cpmc.org/advanced/heart/patients/topics/heartfailure.html
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| | aortic regurgitation |
| | congenital heart defects affecting the structure of the aortic valve that are present at birth | | | For people who have heart valve surgery, the size of the left heart chamber usually decreases and its function improves. | | | Blood from the left side is then pumped into the aorta and out into the body for general circulation. |
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http://www.northmemorial.com/HealthEncyclopedia/content/6.asp
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| | Patent 5176153: Heart chamber simulator with electronic accelerated heart valve wear and fatigue test apparatus and ... |
| | The method of testing replacement heart valves of claim 23 wherein said mean pressure and flow and said selected signals are adjusted to simulate actuation of said replacement heart valve in a controlled manner, and the additional step of varying the degree of cavitation in the flow of said fluid through said replacement heart valve. | | | The method of testing replacement heart valves of claim 24 including the additional step of comparing the operation and life of said replacement heart valve under various conditions of cavitation in the flow. | | | Also, the subject invention varies the pressure applied to a fluid which actuates the heart valve 12 rather than varying the fluid flow or displacement as is accomplished in certain prior art devices. |
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http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5176153.html
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| | The heart is a muscle; in fact, it is the most active muscle in our bodies. | | | The left ventricle is, in a sense, the most important chamber of the heart, and therefore is the most sensitive indicator of how our hearts are functioning. | | | The left ventricle of the heart is surrounded by the most powerful part of the heart muscle. |
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http://www.nsbri.org/HumanPhysSpace/focus2/spaceflight-heart.html
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| | USATODAY.com - More doctors reshape hearts after congestive heart failure |
| | Heart transplants also are an option but many heart patients are too old or too sick to withstand the surgery — even if they are among the 20% who succeed at getting a donor heart. | | | Restoring the heart with the help of a plastic shaper is a new approach to a procedure that's been around for more than 20 years. | | | But he cautioned that it is not for all heart patients, who should be carefully screened to see if they would benefit from the surgery. |
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2004-03-26-heart-restoration_x.htm
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| | Delivering a conduit into a heart wall to place a coronary vessel in communication with a heart chamber and removing ... |
| | Additionally, rather than forming one or more incisions in the patient's chest wall, an endovascular approach may be used to guide various inventive devices to the heart through the patient's vascular system to the heart, for example, by introducing the devices into a peripheral vessel such as the femoral artery. | | | This may facilitate easier placement of a conduit to form a flow path between a coronary vessel and a heart chamber, or it may be used as an initial step in forming a channel that forms such a flow path. | | | Further, instead of dilating an incision in the tissue, a channel may be formed in the heart wall and the vessel wall and the conduit positioned in the channel. |
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http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6651670.html
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| | Resources : Learn More About : Heart & Blood Flow : St. Jude Medical |
| | The heart is a muscle about the size of your fist that lies in the chest, behind and slightly to the left of the breastbone, and between the lungs. | | | As blood circulates through the heart to go to the lungs or body, some of the blood flows into a set of much smaller blood vessels that provide blood flow directly to the muscle of the heart. | | | The left side of the heart receives this oxygen-rich blood from the lungs, which it then pumps through the aorta (the largest vessel in the body) to the body. |
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http://www.sjm.com/resources/learnmoreabout.aspx?section=HeartAndBloodFlow
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| | Heart Valve Disease - Inova Heart Services |
| | As a result, the heart has to work harder to pump blood or blood may back up in the lungs or lower body. | | | The valve may be firm or stiff due to scarring or calcium deposits, making it hard for the heart muscle to propel blood through the valve. | | | Diagnostic tests include an echocardiogram (to measure the blood flow across a valve, to visualize the valve structure and its movement, and to assess heart chamber sizes that can change as valve disease progresses), |
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http://www.inova.com/inovapublic.srt/heart/heart_disease/heart_valves.html
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| | All About the Heart |
| | You may even feel your heart pounding in your chest. | | | But the heart muscle is special because of what it does. | | | The left side of the heart does the exact opposite: It receives blood from the lungs and pumps it out to the body. |
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http://kidshealth.org/kid/body/heart_noSW.html
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| | Learning About Heart Failure |
| | heart failure may be easier if you understand what's happening inside the body. | | | The body diverts blood away from less important tissues and organs to maintain flow to the most vital organs, the heart and brain. | | | These temporary measures mask the problem of heart failure, but they don't solve it. |
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http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=337
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| | Cardiology services of RIPAS |
| | Once the heart arteries are diseased, patients develop chest pains, heart attacks and even sudden death. | | | Highly trained nurses are stationed at all times to monitor the heart condition of patients and doctors provide medical cover at all times. | | | Many are done because of heart diseases as mentioned above; others are done for medical fitness or as workup for surgeries or in high-risk patients. |
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http://www.brunei-online.com/weekend/news/sep10f8.htm
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| | Children's Heart Institute Heart Pressure: Heart Problem Diagnosis |
| | This happens in any condition where there is a communication between the left and right sides of the heart because the pressure in the left side of the heart is higher than the right side of the heart. | | | During the process of the cardiac catheterization doctors measure the pressures in the heart so they can figure out if they are normal or high. | | | Imagine you place a pressure millimeter on the left and right sides of the heart to monitor pressure in the heart. |
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http://www.childrensheartinstitute.org/educate/bloodprs/diagnose.htm
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| | HHMI News: Gene Orchestrates Heart Chamber Development |
| | She does not, however, expect Irx4 to be the master regulator of heart chamber development. | | | A developmental neurobiologist who is noted for her work on the visual system, Cepko says that her team branched into cardiac development by accident. | | | She and her colleagues published their research in the February 19, 1999, issue of the journal Science. |
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| | PCI :: Public Communications Inc. :: Newsroom :: Sick Sinus Sindrome |
| | The incidence of atrial fibrillation was significantly higher in the single-chamber group (27 percent) compared to the dual-chamber group (21 percent), as were instances of heart failure (20 percent vs. 15 percent). | | | Smaller than a pager, a pacemaker is implanted in the chest and has leads, or wires, connecting it to the heart. | | | "Although survival is not increased, patients with the dual-chamber pacemakers experienced less atrial fibrillation, and they were less likely to experience milder forms of heart failure. |
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http://www.pcipr.com/newsroom_archive/NASPE/20010503_naspe_most.asp
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| | Heart Info - Study Questions Value of 2-Chamber Pacemakers |
| | Some previous studies have found that two-chamber pacemakers, which act on both a ventricle and an atrial heart chamber to keep the heart beating regularly, do better at improving survival and quality of life than pacemakers that act only on a ventricle. | | | But British cardiologists are reporting in the July 14 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine that they found no improved survival associated with two-chamber pacemakers. | | | Toff said, "these hard endpoints [of the study] are pretty irrefutable." But he added, "We feel the choice should be made on an individual basis." |
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| | Dual/Single Chamber pacemaker |
| | That most docs place dual chambers in patients with SSS because there is always a chance of further conduction problems and the 2nd lead will be in place then. | | | In the former condition only an atrial lead is needed but usually both leads are put in in case the later condition develops in the future. | | | again last one with pain in my heart i felt it with |
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http://www.medhelp.org/forums/cardio/messages/32767a.html
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| | PreventDisease.com - Oversized Heart Chamber Result of Obesity |
| | The increase in ventricle size is believed to be a result of excess pressure or increased blood flow to the heart muscle. | | | To examine factors influencing the enlargement of the left ventricle, the researchers studied 875 men and women who had been referred for an echocardiogram by their primary care physicians. | | | They measured the size of the patients' hearts and noted the patients' weight and the presence of diabetes or high blood pressure. |
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http://preventdisease.com/news/articles/obesity_and_heart_chamber.shtml
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| | New Scientist Breaking News - Simpler pump boosts failing hearts |
| | Most LVADs attempt to mimic the way the heart works, but their complicated design makes them prone to failure, and they have a tendency to make blood pool and clot, leading to strokes. | | | Artificial heart man says whirring is biggest change | | | That means LVADs are usually only used as a last resort for patients waiting for heart transplants. |
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| | Experimental Results |
| | To asses the performance of AAMs in such enviroments, our implementation is tested upon radiographs of human hands and MRIs of the human heart. | | | The described initialization technique reached the result seen in figure 7 and figure 9. | | | The heart AAM was then used to search in a unseen image spatially and temporal similar to those in the training set. |
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| | ABC News: Embryonic Stem Cells Keep Heart Beating |
| | "By transplanting these human heart cells into the ventricle [heart chamber] of an animal, we can make them beat spontaneously," said Ronald Li, an assistant professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins Medical School and leader of the group reporting the work in the Dec. 20 online issue of Circulation. | | | While the results look good, "we need to be very careful in terms of launching human trials," Li said. | | | The U.S. Food and Drug Administration earlier this year approved the first clinical trial of such therapy by the Texas Heart Institute. |
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| | San Jose Chamber News Flash |
| | fun, fitness and the American Heart Association's lifesaving research and educational programs. | | | Book your spot at our monthly mixer, to be held at the | | | Chamber member cost is only $25 per person or $200 for a table of nine. |
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http://www.imakenews.com/sjchamberflash/index000038765.cfm
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| | Researchers Identify Gene That Sets Boundaries For Heart Chamber Development |
| | OutFoxed: New Research May Redefine Late-stage Cardiac Development (September 10, 2004) -- A team of University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine researchers, led by Edward E. Morrisey, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine, have been investigating how the heart develops from its earliest... | | | This story has been adapted from a news release issued by Harvard Medical School. | | | Comprehensive Set Of Vision Genes Discovered: Identification Could Help In Diagnosing And Treating Blinding Diseases (November 30, 2001) -- Harvard Medical School researchers have discovered nearly all the genes responsible for vision, which could help in diagnosing and treating blinding diseases. |
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/02/990219080627.htm
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| | Ultrasound - 4 Chamber Heart of 21 Week Fetus |
| | The apex of the heart points "leftward", the left atrium is closest to the aorta (small circular structure that lies anterior and to the left of the echogenic spine). | | | Syndromes Associated With Congenital Heart Disease And Ultrasound Findings | | | The crux of the heart is well seen as the interventricular and intratrial septae equally divide the right and left sides of the heart. |
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| | World wide web demo shows a patient's heart chamber in Virtual Reality |
| | The demonstration shows both, a new visualization method applied to medical imaging and the latest option of the product 3D LV-View. | | | The company's Web Demo applies Virtual Reality technology to medical imaging. | | | Principal and system architect Lothar Muench believes that the Web3D technology will have a significant impact on the health care system in general. |
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| | Israel21c Search |
| | "As opposed to existing devices, which do not work in concert with heart but rather are designed to replace it," Dr. Landsberg told Israel21c, "the device we developed works with the heart muscle - reducing its work load and volume. | | | Implanted in the patient's chest, between the lungs and the heart, the device is operated by internal batteries that are recharged by an external battery. | | | Congestive heart failure is characterized by partial functioning of the heart's left chamber, whose job it is to pump the blood to the body. |
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| | OPA News Release, 04/2002 Gene controlling heart chamber formation identified by University of Texas at Austin ... |
| | The study was supported by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, the March of Dimes, Donald W. Reynolds Cardiovascular Clinical Research Center and Smile Train Inc. | | | Our long-term goal is to find out whether mutations in m-Bop cause heart defects in humans, and, if so, whether therapies can be designed to repair such defects,” Gottlieb said. | | | Srivastava and his colleagues determined that the missing gene resulted in the failure to develop the right ventricle of the heart, as well as failure of the left ventricle to develop properly. |
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| | Blood flow through the heart, Eastern Carolina |
| | The blood on the right side of the heart has been used by the body and contains little oxygen (oxygen-poor). | | | Normally blood flows from the body into the right upper heart chamber. | | | The lower left heart chamber pumps blood through the valve to a major blood vessel (aorta) and to the body. |
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| | Artificial Heart Chamber And Artificial Blood Vessels Aid Cardiovascular Surgeons |
| | The blood sacs could also augment the functions of total artificial hearts, which continue to be studied at research centers here and abroad, said Dr. Runt. | | | Szycher said human trials are underway in Europe in which the polymer vessels are being used to cleanse the blood of kidney patients during renal dialysis. | | | Arm Blood Flow Could Predict Heart Attack Risk (March 21, 2001) -- A lowered ability of blood vessels in the arm to respond to stress is associated with increased heart size -- an important risk factor for heart disease, according to a Johns Hopkins study. |
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| | From the heart: Hispanic Chamber CEO has deep attachment to Latinos |
| | The Hispanic chamber needs to be here as a transitional agency for people to be able to live their dream, the American dream.” | | | When there are problems and a negative reflection on the people close to my heart, it’s very distressing to me.” | | | Consequently, Mix said, the general community couldn’t understand the chamber’s role and significance. |
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| | U.S. Pregrant 20040167444 - Placing a guide member into a heart chamber through a coronary vessel and delivering ... |
| | The end of the guide member may then be used to deliver devices into the heart chamber to carry out various medical procedures. | | | A conduit delivery system is coupled to the end of the guide member and is delivered into the heart chamber and then used to place a conduit in the heart wall to communicate the coronary vessel with the heart chamber. | | | A first end of the guide member is passed through the coronary vessel and the heart wall into the heart chamber, and then is passed back out of the heart chamber. |
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| | Namlook & Atom Heart - Jet chamber - Groove Unlimited |
| | Unfortunately, there is no guarantee that this method of musicking will produce uniformly interesting moments. | | | Beat-oriented freestylism with Namlook mostly in charge of melodies (some dark some light) while Atom Heart pounds out some morphing drum tracks through various alienating filters. | | | Killer driving music, this, and then it breaks down to its basic elements, whooshing around through the depths until almost nothing of it is left, where finally it breaks into another clickfest and more sweeps, and we go on from there. |
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| | Dennis Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce :: Your gateway to Dennis, Massachusetts - The Heart of Cape Cod! |
| | During a heart emergency, use of defibrillator allows treatment to begin before EMTs arrive, during the crucial few minutes that can mean the difference between life and death. | | | This is the 3rd year that the Dennis Chamber and the two towns' fire departments have work together to raise funds for the program. | | | Home of the nationally recognized Cape Cod Museum of Art, Cape Playhouse, as well as many fine arts and craft galleries, Dennis offers art aficionados a wonderful experience. |
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| | Virtual Hospital: Atlas of Human Anatomy: Plate 16: Figure 5 |
| | Translated by: Ronald A. Bergman, PhD and Adel K. Afifi, MD, MS Peer Review Status: Internally Peer Reviewed | | | Right heart chamber, opened from its anterior surface. |
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| | Ventricular expression of tbx5 inhibits normal heart chamber development. |
| | Ventricular expression of tbx5 inhibits normal heart chamber development.The T-box gene tbx5 is expressed in the developing heart, forelimb, eye, and liver in vertebrate embryos during critical stages of morphogenesis and patterning. | | | In humans, mutations in the TBX5 gene have been associated with Holt-Oram syndrome, which is characterized by developmental anomalies in the heart and forelimbs. | | | These studies provide direct evidence for an essential role for tbx5 in early heart morphogenesis and chamber-specific gene expression. |
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http://www.pdg.cnb.uam.es/UniPub/iHOP/gp/8359736.html
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| | Heart Chamber Development, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center |
| | Teratological studies include the analysis of the effects of retinoic acid and ethanol on heart chamber formation. | | | We are examining the upstream inductive pathways and transcriptional targets of Tbx5 and its related gene Tbx20 during early cardiac lineage development and heart chamber formation. | | | Studies are in progress to identify molecular regulatory pathways that control normal and abnormal heart formation. |
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http://www.cincinnatichildrens.org/research/div/mcb/interests/yutzey/chamber-dev.htm
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| | Heart of Chamber Music Institute - Welcome! |
| | The Heart of Chamber Music Institute is a not-for-profit educational organization for people of all ages and technical levels that furthers the study and performance of chamber music while emphasizing its communicative power. | | | For music is not about perfection, nor is it about dazzling technique. | | | We provide a supportive environment where individuals may more fully understand the intimate language of chamber music. |
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| | Biology 120 #4 Fall 2001 |
| | Name the specific part of the human brain that normally regulates the rate of heart beat. | | | Name the vessel(s) which supply oxygen and nutrients to heart muscles. | | | The foramen ovale is an opening between the heart chamber named the _17_ and the heart chamber named the _18_ in a fetal heart. |
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| | 61. : 6520904: Device and method for restructuring heart chamber geometry |
| | 6520904: Device and method for restructuring heart chamber geometry | | | : 6520904: Device and method for restructuring heart chamber geometry | | | U.S. A geometric reconfiguration assembly for the natural heart having a collar configured for surrounding the natural heart. |
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| | Namlook & Atom Heart - Jet chamber collection - Groove Unlimited |
| | Jet Chamber II 62:50 (Inner Rotation - Calm Box - Outer Rotation) | | | All five releases represent their typical style from Chill-Out to Techno- Jazz. | | | Jet Chamber I 69:01 (Split Wide - Rotor Cabinet - Chaos Impuls - Feedback Fluctuation - Streamline) |
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| | One Heart Among Us - Holy Heart Chamber Choir |
| | This 42 member mixed voice choir is auditioned annually from a student body of 1000. | | | The third of the choir's three CD's, "One Heart Among Us," was released in December 1999. | | | One Heart Among Us - Holy Heart Chamber Choir |
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| | Heart of Chamber Music Institute - Facts about The Heart of Chamber Music Institute |
| | Because of the experience of the Tatgrin girls in Boston, the curriculum of The Holy Trinity School in Port-au-Prince has been recast to include chamber music for advanced students | | | Heart of Chamber Music Institute - Facts about The Heart of Chamber Music Institute | | | FACTS about The Heart of Chamber Music Institute |
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| | Not Found - Chamber of Women in Business, Canberra |
| | You may like to update your bookmarks to this site as well. | | | The page you've tried to find has either moved, as a result of the recent redesign, or doesn't exist. | | | Please use the links at the side of this page to access the Chamber of Women in Busines web site. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Dictionary - ventricle |
| | hollow in body part: a small cavity or chamber in the body or in an organ | | | physiology heart chamber: either of the two lower chambers of the heart that receive blood from the upper chambers atria and pump it into the arteries by contraction of their thick muscular walls | | | Search for "ventricle" in all of MSN Encarta |
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| | Charlie's Heart Chamber |
| | *S* Please dont forget to touch my heart by signing my NEW guestbook before you leave so I can return the favor to your home! | | | I hope you enjoy your visit and please sign my guestbook before you move on! |
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| | Heart Chamber |
| | If you don't want a session, please contact me anyway and let me know you reached this heart chamber. | | | The truth is that all the secrets of the universe already lie in your own heart chamber. | | | Congratulations, you have entered the secret heart chamber! |
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