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Cardio Vascular Disease

Atherosclerosis : Disease process that leads to CHD and strokes



either block
can
directly artery
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an


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of being blocked
by blood clot
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-Cardiac muscle cells can be deprived
of Oxygen causing
a heart attack
(myocardial infarction)
to brain
-
block of artery is stroke



Atherosclerosis
. The
1 cells
process
: endothelium in the
coronary artery can become damaged
due to high blood pressure and toxins from smoking

. This
2 results in an
inflammatory response
.
White blood cells move into the
(DL cholestrol
artery wall . also builds up
making a
fatty desposit
,
called an atteroma .




. Calcium
3 salts and
fibrous tissue build up resulting in a hand

swelling called an atherosclerotic plaque
.
The
calcification and fibrous
tissue results in the loss of elasticity in the wall .




4
. Plaques cause the lumen of he
coronary
artenies to be narrower
.

This results in an increase in blood pressure
. This is a positive feedback
loop dure to
high blood pressure more plaques willform .




. Platelets
Blood
Clotting :
2
come into contact with damaged vessel wall
they Thechange
from fluttered discs to
spheres with
long thin
projections
. cell
surface change to them to stick to the exposed collagen in the wall
,
causing
and each other,
activating more platelets



Clotting Cascade


2 Platelets
. and damaged tissue release a protein called thromboplastin

3
. Thromboplastin activates that catalyses the conversion
an
enzyme
of the inactive protein prothrombin into an
enzyme called thrombin
.


Protein factors of Calcium ions and vitamin K are .
needed


4 Thrombin catalyses the
. conversion
of soluble protein fibrogen , into the insoluble

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