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  • Coronary disease
  • Coronary heart disease
  • Coronary heart disease
  • Coronary artery disease
  • Coronary care monitor
  • Coronary disease, severe three vessel
  • Angioplasty, coronary
  • Panels of Heart Exhibition: Angina Pectoris and Coronary Disease.
  • Rat coronary artery
  • Calcification, coronary artery
  • Mouse heart showing position of coronary arteries
  • Human heart (coronary artery) tissue displaying calcification
  • Angioplasty, left coronary artery, pre and post
  • Gaston de Foix dying from a coronary attack
  • A diseased heart affected by a coronary thrombosis and an aneurysm. Chromolithograph by W. Gummelt, ca. 1897.
  • Helianthus annuus L. Asteraceae Sun flower Distribution: Peru to Mexico. The seeds are a source of linoleic acid, a polyunsaturated fat which as part of one's diet is given to reduce coronary artery and cerebrovascular disease, but recently a study has found an increased death rate (BMJ2013
  • ECG trace showing unstable angina pectoris. This is the symptom of paroxysmal pain consequent to myocardial ischaemia, usually of distinctive character, location and radiation. It is thought to be provoked by a transient stressful situation during which the oxygen requirements of the myocardium exceed that supplied by the coronary circulation.
  • Taxus baccata L. Taxaceae European Yew. Trees are feminine in Latin, so while Taxus has a masculine ending (-us), its specific name, baccata (meaning 'having fleshy berries' (Stearn, 1994)), agrees with it in gender by having a female ending ( -a). Distribution: Europe. Although regarded as poisonous since Theophrastus, Gerard and his school friends used to eat the red berries (they are technically called 'arils') without harm. Johnson clearly ate the fleshy arils and spat out the seed, which is as poisonous as the leaves. It is a source of taxol, an important chemotherapeutic agent for breast and other cancers. It was first extracted from the bark of T. brevifolia, the Pacific yew tree, in 1966. About 1,100 kg of bark produces 10 g of taxol, and 360,000 trees a year would have been required for the needs of the USA – an unsustainable amount. In 1990 a precursor of taxol was extracted from the needles of the European yew so saving the Pacific trees. It is now produced in fermentation tanks from cell cultures of Taxus. Curiously, there is a fungus, Nodulisporium sylviforme, which lives on the yew tree, that also produces taxol. Because taxol stops cell division, it is also used in the stents that are inserted to keep coronary arteries open. Here it inhibits – in a different way, but like anti-fouling paint on the bottom of ships – the overgrowth of endothelial cells that would otherwise eventually block the tube. The economic costs of anticancer drugs are significant. Paclitaxel ‘Taxol’ for breast cancer costs (2012) £246 every 3 weeks
  • Mechanical heart
  • Arabic text on diseases of the heart
  • Tune into a healthy diet : nutrition/dietary advice / Medicentre.
  • Tune into a healthy diet : nutrition/dietary advice / Medicentre.
  • Royal Liverpool University Hospital: an angiography in progress. Drawing by Julia Midgley, 1998.
  • Teodiamil (teofilina etilenodiamina) "Frosst" / Charles E. Frosst & Co. ; distribuidores exclusivos para Cuba: Distribuidora Cubana.
  • Teodiamil (teofilina etilenodiamina) "Frosst" / Charles E. Frosst & Co. ; distribuidores exclusivos para Cuba: Distribuidora Cubana.
  • HMG-CoA reductase
  • Left ventricle, mouse heart, OPT
  • HMG-CoA reductase
  • Heptalgin : new name in pain therapy.
  • Heptalgin : new name in pain therapy.