Clinical challenge: Mr. brown is a 75 year old patient with arteriosclerosis. He

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Clinical challenge: Mr. brown is a 75 year old patient with arteriosclerosis. He has suffered a mild heart attack and is scheduled for angioplasty. How is his arteriosclerosis associated with the heart attack and will the balloon angioplasty help? Clinical challenge: Mr. brown is a 75 year old patient with arteriosclerosis. He has suffered a mild heart attack and is scheduled for angioplasty. How is his arteriosclerosis associated with the heart attack and will the balloon angioplasty help? Clinical challenge: Mr. brown is a 75 year old patient with arteriosclerosis. He has suffered a mild heart attack and is scheduled for angioplasty. How is his arteriosclerosis associated with the heart attack and will the balloon angioplasty help?

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In atherosclerosis,over time the plaque hardens and narrows arteries which causes decreased blood supply to the cardiac muscle.Also sometimes the plaque may rupture causing thrombus which occludes vessels and causes death of cardiac muscle(heart attack)

Angioplasty is done to widen the narrowed blood vessels due to atherosclerosis and thus improvers blood supply to organs and prevents heart attack

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