| Coronary disease Classification and external resources |
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Coronary disease (or coronary heart disease) refers to the failure of coronary circulation to supply adequate circulation to cardiac muscle and surrounding tissue. Medical Subject Headings ( MeSH) is a huge Controlled vocabulary (or metadata system for the purpose of indexing journal articles and books Coronary circulation is the circulation of blood in the Blood vessels that supply Blood to and from the Heart muscle The cardiac muscle is a type of involuntary striated Muscle found in the walls of the Heart.
It is sometimes equated with atherosclerotic coronary artery disease, but coronary disease can be due to other causes, such as coronary vasospasm[1]. Atherosclerosis is a Disease affecting arterial Blood vessels It is a chronic inflammatory response in the walls of arteries in large part due to the accumulation Coronary artery disease (CAD (or atherosclerotic Heart disease) is the end result of the accumulation of atheromatous plaques within the walls Coronary vasospasm is a form of Vasospasm affecting the Coronary circulation. (It is possible for the stenosis to be caused by the spasm. )[2]
References
- ^ Williams MJ, Restieaux NJ, Low CJ (February 1998). "Myocardial infarction in young people with normal coronary arteries". Heart 79 (2): 191–4. PMID 9538315.
- ^ Rezkalla SH, Kloner RA (October 2007). "Cocaine-induced acute myocardial infarction". Clin Med Res 5 (3): 172–6. doi:. A digital object identifier ( DOI) is a permanent identifier given to an Electronic document. PMID 18056026.
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