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Friday, September 4th, 2009 No Commented
Under: Coronary Heart Disease
  1. Every day the average heart beats (widening and narrowing) to 100,000 times and able to pump approximately 2000 liters of blood. If until the age of 70 years, the human heart will beat 2.5 billion times as much non-stop.
  2. Atherosclerosis comes from the Greek, which means athero is clay, and sclerosis, meaning hardening. This term is used to label a process in which a collection of fatty substances, cholesterol, cellular waste, calcium and fat compounds formed on the inside of the artery wall. This formation is often also called plaque. Generally affects the large arteries and medium size. Naturally, hardening of the arteries also occurs when we age.
  3. Angina, is a condensation of “angina pectoris” is a Latin language to express pain in the chest. Basically, angina is a feeling pressured, uncomfortable or painful neck, shoulders back, and arms. Angina attacks usually occur for a few minutes and will disappear when we rest and take medicine.
  4. Myocardial Infarction, is used to express a heart attack. Is due to blockage of blood flow in one or more branching arteries that supply oxygen-rich blood to the heart muscle. Termination of oxygen-rich blood flow to the heart muscle can cause permanent damage to the heart muscle. Somewhat different from the pain of angina, heart attack pain will generally last more than 15 minutes and not relieved by rest.
  5. PTCA, an abbreviation of Percutaneus Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty, which means; through the skin (percutaneus), in the vessel (transluminal), which related to the blood vessels of the heart (coronary) and blood vessel dilation (angioplasty)
  6. PCI, which stands for Coronary Intervention Percutaneus meaningful treatment with stent stenosis.
  7. Stenosis, derived from the Greek shorthand which means narrowing. This term describes the narrowing of the arteries by atherosclerosis plaques. Generally, coronary stenosis diagnosed at advanced stages, where the stenosis was 75% reduced blood flow.
  8. Restenosis, is a term used to describe the narrowing of the back of a blood vessel, which at that location previously dilaksakan Ballon Angioplasty with stents or installation
  9. Drug Eluting stents (DES), is a type of heart stents drug dilapisis surface. Drugs found on the surface of the DES is intended to prevent the emergence of Restenosis.

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