(Continued from last week)

Last week, we documented that the heartworms live mostly in the right side heart chambers. That alone could compromise the heart function immensely. The heart just can’t get enough blood out into the circulation. This means that many organs down the line are being starved of adequate supplies of blood and therefore not enough oxygen (the blood carries the oxygen).

Besides the fact that a bundle of worms in the heart takes up space in the heart (space needed for specific volumes of blood), …..