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Albert Graham,
Backyard Pool Drainer
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The coronary arteries also include other tiny blood vessels called collateral coronary arteries, which connect the normal coronary arteries with one another.
Coronary arteries Coronary arteries are the blood vessels that wrap around the heart muscle and keep it supplied with oxygen-rich blood.
The coronary arteries (blood vessels feeding the heart) of most people develop some fatty deposits known as plaques.
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Miles Rhodes,
Wine Taster
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Coronary arteries can get narrower over time when fatty deposits build up inside, just like a plugged drain pipe in your kitchen sink.
This is done in the hospital and involves injecting dye into the coronary arteries through a catheter that it inserted in an artery in the groin and then advanced into the chambers and coronary arteries in the heart.
Narrowing of the coronary arteries caused by cholesterol deposits along arterial walls.
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Adam Findley,
Professional Motivator
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Although coronary arteries thickened in the placebo group over a period of 3 years, this trend was blocked by amlodipine as evidenced by a 46% decrease in need for revascularization procedures.
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Dave Simons,
Internet Entrepeneur
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Coronary angiography done noninvasively with the GE Imatron Electron Beam Scanner provides the opportunity exam the coronary arteries without the risks associated with conventional angiography.
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Sasha Prevette,
Kindergarten student
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The coronary arteries carry the nuclear tracer to the mycardium.
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Khalid Binalshibh,
Taxi Driver
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When both coronary arteries arise from the pulmonary trunk, death occurs shortly after birth.
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Dan Toomey,
Computer Salesman
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Coronary angiograms within previous 3 months show 1 area of adequate perfusion in the region of 1 of the major coronary arteries.
Intravascular ultrasound was used to examine the coronary arteries of 181 heart transplant recipients two to six weeks following transplantation.
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