2007-01-23 13:47:47 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
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2007-01-23 22:06:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Coronary artery disease is arteriosclerosis, the build-up of plaque in the coronary arteries, the arteries which provide blood flow to the heart muscle. It is the condition most responsible for myocardial infarcts (death of heart muscle) when the arteries become occluded (blocked) so that the blood can not flow freely or clots form disrupting the blood supply to the heart muscle. It can be treated medically with drugs and surgically with angioplasty and the insertion of a stent or stents (tiny devices which expand the artery) or coronary bypass surgery.
2007-01-23 14:05:37 · answer #2 · answered by Lynci 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
CAD is a progressive disease of the vessels on the heart that supply oxygenated blood to the hear muscle itself. Typically because of genetic factors, stress, and dietary a factors, these vessels get blocked, or become weakened.
Patients may be put on drugs to lower cholesterol, or may have a type of "cardiac intervention", like a stent put in to sort of bridge a diseased portion of tthe vessel.
A "bypass" is when they take vein from somewhere else in the body and use it to bypass a diseased section of a coronary artery.
Untreated heart disease causes heart attacks. Heart disease is the leading killer in the US
2007-01-23 14:10:31 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
pretty much it means the little arteries in your heart are gunked up and blood has trouble getting through them which can cause your heart to not get enough oxygen and end up with a heart attack.
2007-01-23 22:39:45 · answer #4 · answered by janet 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
they are a group of heart problems caused by the impaired function of feeding vessel to the heart muscle. it differs to the special CAD how it appears
2007-01-23 14:55:44 · answer #5 · answered by dr s 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-01-23 13:54:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋