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Need doctor's help! what do you call the condition when your heart grows extra veins when another vein is blocked?
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Collateral: It is called collateral circulation.
Answered 6/4/2014
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Collateral: Long term chronic steno sis body can develop collateral.
Answered 6/4/2014
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