Coronary artery bypass What can a patient expect during recovery from a heart attack? How can a second heart attack be prevented?WHAT IS A HEART ATTACK?A heart attack (also known as a myocardial infarction) is the death of heart muscle from the sudden blockage of a coronary artery by a ...
Sometimes, other heart and blood vessel conditions besides a blockage cause a heart attack. A condition known as spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) can also trigger one. It happens when a tear happens inside one of the blood vessels that supply your heart. This tear can lead to a ...
Angioplasty or balloon angioplasty.To begin this treatment, the doctor will thread a balloon through tubing which is threaded into your coronary arteries. The balloon will then be inflated in the areas of your arteries that have blockages. Usually, this procedure is done in combination with a st...
Coronary artery bypass surgery.In this procedure, a surgeon takes an artery or vein from another part of your body—a leg, forearm, or your chest are all likely places—and uses it to connect your aorta to a point near the blockage in your artery. This reroutes blood flow so that it ...
The favored treatment is heart catheterization. Tubes are threaded through the femoral artery in the groin or through the brachial artery in the elbow, into the coronary arteries, and the area of blockage is identified. Angioplasty Angioplasty (angio= artery + plasty=repair) is then considered if...
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A thin tube is placed in a blood vessel in the leg or arm and threaded into the heart and into the opening of a coronary artery. Dye is put into the tube and goes into the artery. A special X-ray machine images the dye, showing narrowing or blockage of the artery. ...
The following is a simplified presentation of the next research project, which aims to determine the common site of blockages of coronary arteries and its branches in the heart and I think that, this study will play an active role in the treatment immediately before the myocardial infarction. ...
Bypass surgery If an area of a vessel is blocked, surgeons can take out part of a vessel from another part of the body to channel blood around that blockage. In a similar way, damaged valves can be replaced. This is known as valve replacement. ...
This is most commonly due to occlusion (blockage) of a coronary artery following the rupture of a vulnerable atherosclerotic plaque, which is an unstable collection of lipids (cholesterol and fatty acids) and white blood cells (especially macrophages) in the wall of an artery. The resulting ...