A coronary arterial wall weakened by disease may dilate and form a coronary artery aneurysm. This can occur as post-stenotic dilation with atherosclerotic coronary disease or may occur as a ...

The ascending aorta includes the aortic root and sinuses of Valsalva where the blood supply to your heart, via the coronary arteries ... An ascending or aortic arch aneurysm refers to ballooning out ...

SO SCAD OR SPONTANEOUS CORONARY ARTERY DISSECTION ACTUALLY OCCURS IN ... THAT’S AN ABNORMALITY OF ARTERIAL WALLS THAT LEADS TO ANEURYSMS AND DISSECTIONS, WHICH IS WHAT WE SEE IN SCAD.

For many of these conditions, women present later and sicker, and are less likely to be treated appropriately.

The goal of coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG ... such as repairing or replacing a heart valve, aortic aneurysm repair, or a procedure to treat an irregular heart beat known as atrial fibrillation ...

Recent studies have discovered an association between a sequence variant on chromosome 9p21, tagged by rs10757278-G, and coronary artery disease (CAD). Helgadottir et al. genotyped this single ...

Aortic Aneurysms: The toxic effects of smoking ... and mitigate long-term risks. Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: CABG is a surgical procedure for treating severe CAD. During this intervention ...

We answer. Here's an easy-to-read, illustrated guide to heart disease. Most heart attacks are the end result of coronary heart disease, a condition that clogs coronary arteries with fatty ...

An anterior wall myocardial infarction occurs when anterior myocardial tissue usually supplied by the left anterior descending coronary artery suffers ... a ventricular aneurysm — a known ...