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How is arteriosclerosis associated with a heart attack and will a balloon angioplasty help?
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Is arteriosclerosis another name for heart attack?
No. Arteriosclerosis is the progressive narrowing of the blood vessels that leads to a heart attack.
What is the impact of arteriosclerosis?
The impact of arteriosclerosis on the body (hardening of vessels due to cholesterol deposits) can be heart attack, stroke, and other serious conditions.
Can you tell us the extent of David Bowie's heart attack he spent a week in a German hospital before released to come home to New York was it an angioplasty or open heart?
Angioplasty
What is arteriosclerosis?
Arteriosclerosis is a chronic condition where the arteries become thickened and stiff, which can restrict blood flow to tissues and organs. This can increase the risk of heart attack, stroke, and other cardiovascular diseases. It is often associated with aging and other factors like high cholesterol, high blood pressure, smoking, and diabetes.
What are the common ailments affecting the circulatory system and their symptoms?
Heart attack, Hypertension, .coronary Thrombosis,. anemia aneurism arteriosclerosis Burger's Disease ,
What is it when they insert a balloon through your neck to your liver?
that is how you get a heart attack or DIE
How is heart attack treated by doctors?
Additional treatment after a heart attack can include close monitoring, electric shock, drug therapy, re-vascularization procedures, percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty and coronary artery bypass surgery.
What major problemis associated with medicines which attack invading organisms and abnormal cells?
There are many major problems associated with medicines that attack invading organisms and abnormal cells. One of these problems is that they also attack healthy cells.
What patients are candidates for cardiac rehabilitation?
Heart attack survivors, bypass and angioplasty patients, and individuals with angina, congestive heart failure, and heart transplants are all candidates for a cardiac rehabilitation program.
Is cancer bad for you?
Depends what unhealthy means. If unhealthy involves smoking then yes. If unhealthy refers to diet and exercise, I don't believe it's associated with cancer, but it can cause a lot of other bad things! (so just don't be unhealthy, because even if it isn't related to cancer, heart attack, stroke, arteriosclerosis etc. can also kill you)
Can arteriosclerosis be fatal?
It is a preventable and treatable condition. However, because it restricts blood flow it is a serious condition which can lead to multiple heath problems to include blood clots, stroke, heart attack etc.
What rare but serious risks are present during angioplasty?
a small risk of heart attack, stroke, and, although unlikely, death--all related to vessel spasm (transient vessel narrowing from irritation by the catheter), or from emboli
