Coronary heart disease is a common term for the buildup of plaque in the heart’s arteries that could lead to heart attack. But what about coronary artery disease? Is there a difference? The short answer is often no — health professionals frequently use the terms interchangeably. However‚ coronary heart disease ‚ or CHD‚ is actually a result of coronary artery disease‚ or CAD‚ said Edward Fisher‚ M.D.‚ Ph.D.‚ an American Heart Association volunteer who is the Leon H. Charney Professor of Cardiovascular
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Drug-Eluting Stents to Prevent Coronary Restenosis Szycher M‚ Ph.D.*; Armini A‚ Ph.D.; Bajgar C‚ Sc.D.; Lucas A * CardioTech International‚ Inc.‚ 78E Olympia Avenue‚ Woburn‚ MA 01801‚ and Implant Sciences Corporation‚ 107 Audubon Road‚ Suite 5‚ Wakefield‚ MA 01880. Copyright 2002. All rights reserved. IMX Paper v2 ______________________________________________________________________________________ Background – The development of coronary stents has revolutionized the practice of interventional
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all the departments of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) (Wheelwright & Weber‚ 2004). The implementation of care path or critical path method could help to provide standard‚ modified‚ and better care to all the patients before and after the coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. Reduction in operating cost and average length of stay could be also expected to result from the implementation of the care path
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Coronary Heart Disease Coronary heart disease‚ also called coronary artery disease or ischemic heart disease‚ it characterized by an inadequate supply of oxygen-rich blood to the heart muscle (myocardium) because of narrowing or blocking of a coronary artery by fatty plaques. If the oxygen depletion is extreme‚ the effect may be a myocardial infarction (heart attack); if the deprivation is insufficient to cause infarction (death of a section of heart muscle)‚ the effect may be angina pectoris
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Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) is a medical condition that encompasses various heart-related ailments such as acute myocardial ischemia‚ unstable angina‚ non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI)‚ and ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) (Kumar & Cannon 2009). NSTEMI and STEMI begins with atherosclerosis which happens when a plaque known as atherosclerotic plaque is formed from years of cholesterol deposits within the artery wall. When this ruptures the platelets clump
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2014 Coronary Heart Disease and Vitamin E This article investigates the question of the usefulness of Vitamin E in the treatment and / or the prevention of heart disease. Beginning with the basics‚ heart disease is one of the most common causes of chronic illness and death in the adult population in the United States. The primary cause of heart disease is coronary artery atherosclerosis‚ which is the build- up of plaque in the artery walls. This plaque is the result of the oxidation of LDL
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Capstone Project: Coronary Artery Disease Kaplan University 04/17/2014 Eric is a 47-year-old male who has just been diagnosed with Coronary Artery Disease. He is a construction worker and spends a great deal of time away from his wife and three children. Eric smokes approximately 1 1⁄2 packs of cigarettes a day and enjoys drinking a 6-pack after a long day at work. Coronary artery disease is the condition of the narrowing of the arteries that supply oxygen and blood to the myocardium
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systemic circulation is as the blood leaves both ventricles‚ it enters the aorta and goes into the body. It travels through many parts of the body before it reaches the heart. The coronary circulatory routes is in the heart. It starts off at the superior venacava. After it reaches the venacava‚ in then travels into other parts of the heart before it is finally absorbed and the whole process starts over again. The difference between the coronary circulatory routes and the systemic route. Coronary circulatory
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Coronary Heart Disease also known as Coronary Artery Disease is a disease in which a waxy substance called plaque builds up inside the coronary arteries. These arteries supply oxygen rich blood to the heart muscles. There are many health/risk factors associated with coronary heart disease and stroke. Among the many sections of the Affordable Care Act is a section entitled Health Care Workforce. But‚ a shorter name that is used for this section it Title V. Title V provides improved access to and
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What are the coronary circulatory routes and how does it compare to the portal circulatory route you ask? They are both routes but different in many ways because of how they circulate the blood throughout the body. The coronary circulatory system deals with how the blood of the heart circulates to help the heart function itself. But the systemic route differs from the other route. In the systemic route blood is moved through the body providing it with oxygen and nutrients while blood with no oxygen
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