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coronary thrombosis

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coronary thrombosis

In medicine, acute manifestation of coronary heart disease causing a heart attack.



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Tobacco smoke--including secondhand smoke--activates blood coagulation pathways that could lead to coronary thrombosis, or heart attack.
The mechanism of such events is not well understood but may be due to hemodynamic, vasoconstrictive and prothrombotic effects with disruption of unstable coronary plaques leading to acute coronary thrombosis (6,7).
When Ivor Novello died in 1951 of a coronary thrombosis, Coward wrote in his diary: "Another landmark swept away.
 
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