Laminated poster about heart disease in English

The poster illustrates a normal heart and a range of vascular diseases for comparison. The poster is written in English text and is intended as a tool for the professional or therapist who has to explain the subject to patients or students.

Via easy-to-understand text, a large number of heart diseases are illustrated and explained - including:

• Heart murmurs and their causes
• Heart rhythms such as tachycardia, bradycardia, atrial fibrillation and ventricular arrhythmias and their causes
• Congenital heart defects such as persistent ductus arteriosus, atrial septal defect and ventricular septal defect
• Acquired heart diseases such as myocarditis, rheumatic heart disease, cardiomyopathy and Kawasaki disease
• Elevated cholesterol, including the transport of this in lipoproteins and the consequences of having an elevated cholesterol level
• Narrowing of the main artery (coarctatio aortae)
• Insufficient mitral valve
• Acute coronary syndrome (blood clot in the heart's coronary arteries due to atherosclerosis)
• Hypertension (high blood pressure)

This is a laminated poster with 75 micron (thick lamination), which makes the poster water and dirt resistant. There is a 5 mm lamination edge around the poster. The poster can be rolled up and hung up with hanging strips or elephant's snout. There is does not some ring holes.