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Patients who cannot swallow may receive nutrition via a parenteral route—usually, a catheter is inserted through the chest into a large vein going into the heart.
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The longest a person has survived after a heart transplant is 24 years.
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Cocaine was isolated in 1860 and first used as a local anesthetic in 1884. Its first clinical use was by Sigmund Freud to wean a patient from morphine addiction. The fictional character Sherlock Holmes was supposed to be addicted to cocaine by injection.
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The familiar sounds of your heart are made by the heart's valves as they open and close.
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The first oncogene was discovered in 1970 and was termed SRC (pronounced "SARK").