Sentences with phrase «plaque rupture»

But was inflammation relevant to the triggering of actual heart attack — which often occurs when an arterial plaque ruptures and blocks an artery — not just the long process leading up to it?

Their small size — they are 1,000 times smaller than the tip of a single strand of human hair — and «sticky» surfaces enable them to accumulate and be retained within the plaques to facilitate healing and remodeling to block plaque rupture and thrombosis.

Cardiologists have well - developed ideas for how plaque rupture works *; see the concept of â $ œvulnerable plaque.â $ Cholesterol and inflammatory cells build up in the coronary arteries over several years.

Plaque rupture also increases the chance of stroke or blood clots in the brain.

This presentation will cover mechanisms of heart attack such as: spontaneous plaque rupture with clot formation; and, the role of inflammation as a trigger.

The test looks for signs that a patient has experienced an arterial plaque rupture — a crack in the lining of a blood vessel leading to the heart.

«The leading cause of death worldwide is complications of atherosclerosis, and the most common end - stage disease is when an atherosclerotic plaque ruptures.

This remodeling of the plaque environment would be predicted in humans to block plaque rupture and thrombosis and thereby prevent heart attacks and strokes.

«Once a plaque ruptures, it can induce formation of a large clot that can block blood flow to the downstream regions.

Plaque rupture is a common event directly preceding both heart attack and stroke.

As described in a scientific paper published earlier this year (Nature Genetics, 2004), this risk is probably the result of increased inflammation in atherosclerotic plaques, contributing to plaque rupture.

Instead of the plaque rupturing, it's more likely to erode.