MEDICAL BIOLOGY, HUMAN ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY AND PATHOLOGY - Y.I. Fedonyuk 2010

ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, PATHOLOGY

SECTION 5. BLOOD AND LYMPH CIRCULATION PROCESSES AND THEIR PATHOLOGY

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES

CORONARY HEART DISEASE

Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) is an acute or chronic pathological process in the myocardium caused by inadequate Blood supply due to organic lesions of the coronary Arteries or, much less frequently, As a result of their functional changes (spasm, insufficient increase in blood flow under increasing workload). Therefore, ischemic heart disease is essentially coronary heart disease.

The main Clinical forms of coronary heart disease include myocardial infarction, angina pectoris, Post-infarction cardiosclerosis, and diffuse cardiosclerosis.

Myocardial infarction is classified among the acute forms of CHD, whereas angina pectoris (certain forms), as well as post-infarction cardiosclerosis (Fig. 5.54 a) and diffuse cardiosclerosis (Fig. 5.54 b), belong to its chronic forms.

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Fig. 5.54. Chronic coronary heart disease. Cardiosclerosis



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