Myocardial infarction | Colloquially known as a “heart attack”, occurs when blood flow decreases or stops to a part of the heart, causing irreversible damage to the heart muscle. |
Percutaneous coronary intervention | Non-surgical procedure used to treat narrowed coronary arteries of the heart found in coronary artery disease. Most commonly, a balloon catheter is inserted into a diseased coronary artery and inflated to relieve the narrowing. A stent can then be deployed to keep the vessel open. |
Coronary artery bypass graft | Surgical procedure used to treat narrowed coronary arteries of the heart found in coronary artery disease. A redundant blood vessel is harvested from another part of the body and attached in such a way that a diseased coronary artery is bypassed. |