What is a stenotic Coronary Artery Atheroma?

Answer 1

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ATHEROMA is a complex process of degeneration that occurs in blood vessels throughout the body, virtually from the minute we are born to the time of our death. Its rate of development in infancy, childhood and youth is minimal but thereafter it tends to develop with increasing frequency, such that in middle life and in the elderly it has become the commonest percentage cause of all deaths, but in the elderly is the cause of many more deaths in total, than in middle life. When a normal artery is trans-sected it is seen to be made up of several layers; the innermost, the intima, consists of a layer of shiny endothelial cells and a layer of sub endothelial collagen, fibrous and elastic tissues. The media, which is almost entirely muscular, surrounds this; the third layer, the adventitia, which is composed of a firm coat of fibrous and elastic tissue, covers the media.


The degenerative process of atheroma occurs almost exclusively in the intima: The endothelial cells are prone to wear and tear, wherever stress is maximal in the arterial wall. The uneven intimal surface that develops predisposes to the deposition of thrombus, composed mainly of platelets. Stress occurs especially where there is turbulence of flow of blood, e.g. where an artery divides, gives off a branch, or bends around a sharp corner. Increased pressure on the sub-endothelial cells causes them to necrose and to form open spaces or vacuums, into which fat and cholesterol, in particular, are deposited; bleeding is also prone to occur in this damaged layer. Thus the chronic process of deposition of atheroma may deteriorate rapidly and acutely, by the complications of thrombosis and/or of haemorrhage, resulting in the sudden narrowing or total occlusion of the lumen in the centre of an artery.
The same rule goes for coronary arteries.

Answer 2

Coronary Artery Atheroma

Answer 3

Coronary Atheroma

Answer 4

coronary artery is an artery which supplies blood to heart muscles. Arteriosclerosis or atheroma formation takes place in all people and is known to affect 80% of the people by the age of 20. atheroma is collection of 'fat' in the blood vessels. that is why doctors prescribe a low fat diet for almost all known heart conditions.
stenosis is also called occlusion. When atheroma blocks more than 75-80% of the coronary artery it is then calkled coronary artery ateroma stenosis.

Answer 5

Stenotic means tightening, closing, and atheroma is fatty deposit. A closing of arteries due to fatty deposits in the heart arteries.