Disease characterized by plaque building up in the arteries of the heart

concept

ECG trace showing unstable angina pectoris. This is the symptom of paroxysmal pain consequent to myocardial ischaemia, usually of distinctive character, location and radiation. It is thought to be provoked by a transient stressful situation during which the oxygen requirements of the myocardium exceed that supplied by the coronary circulation.

HMG-CoA reductase

Mechanical heart

The tax on medicine represented as a tax on illness and, ultimately, even on the 'abnormality' of healthiness: ten vignettes. Photomechanical reproduction of a wood engraving by H. Maigrot, 1907.

Etude sur le coeur senile : lesions du coeur, consecutives a l'atherome des coronaires / par Ernesto Odriozola.

Cardiac fibrosis as a result of coronary obstruction / by G. A. Gibson and Robert Muir.

The heart : technical terms explained / British Heart Foundation.

Coronary heart disease, a personal, clinical study / by Harold Feil.

K patologicheskoi anatomii serdtsa pri sklerozie vienechnykh arterii : iz patologo-anatomicheskoi laboratorii prof. N.P. Ivanovskago : dissertatsiia na stepen' doktora meditsiny / Iakova Gofmana.

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Coronary Artery Disease

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Etude sur le coeur senile : lesions du coeur, consecutives a l'atherome des coronaires / par Ernesto Odriozola.

Cardiac fibrosis as a result of coronary obstruction / by G. A. Gibson and Robert Muir.

The heart : technical terms explained / British Heart Foundation.

Coronary heart disease, a personal, clinical study / by Harold Feil.

K patologicheskoi anatomii serdtsa pri sklerozie vienechnykh arterii : iz patologo-anatomicheskoi laboratorii prof. N.P. Ivanovskago : dissertatsiia na stepen' doktora meditsiny / Iakova Gofmana.

Coronary Artery Disease

Images from the collections

Images referencing Coronary Artery Disease

Works from the collections

Etude sur le coeur senile : lesions du coeur, consecutives a l'atherome des coronaires / par Ernesto Odriozola.

Cardiac fibrosis as a result of coronary obstruction / by G. A. Gibson and Robert Muir.

The heart : technical terms explained / British Heart Foundation.

Coronary heart disease, a personal, clinical study / by Harold Feil.

K patologicheskoi anatomii serdtsa pri sklerozie vienechnykh arterii : iz patologo-anatomicheskoi laboratorii prof. N.P. Ivanovskago : dissertatsiia na stepen' doktora meditsiny / Iakova Gofmana.

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