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Is coronary artery disease the same as arteriosclerosis and myocardial infarction? please advise!

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Coronary artery: disease and arteriosclerosis are essentially to names for the same. You can have these without infarction. A myocardial infarction occurs when blood flow is abruptly interrupted in a certain coronary artery and heart muscle is not receiving adequate blood supply.

Answered 7/23/2014

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CAD: is the same as arteriosclerosis, though arteriosclerosis can refer to sclerosing (scarring) of any artery, not just those in the heart. A myocardial infarction (commonly called a heart attack) occurs when there is complete cutoff of blood supply to some part of the heart muscles, usually due to underlying coronary artery disease.

Answered 1/23/2019

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