cardiovascular

• Aneurysm


  Ballooning of the blood vessel
• Angina Pectoris


  Severe chest pain with feeling of suffocation
• Angiospasm


  Sudden contraction of smooth muscle of the wall of blood vessel; can interrupt blood flow
• Aortostenosis


  Narrowing of aorta; Congenital or result of disease

  
• Arrhythmia


  Any irregularity in the heart beat

  
• Atheroma


  Fatty deposit that obstructs blood flow through a vessel usually artery
• Atherosclerosis


  Fatty deposits within a blood vessel
• Bradycardia


  Abnormally slow heart beat

  
• Cardiac arrest


  Cessation of cardiac function; Non-synchronous muscular contraction
• Cardiomyopathy


  Condition in which the heart muscle becomes enlarged, thick, or rigid
• Coarctation


  Narrowing of blood vessel; congenital malformation

  
• Congestive Heart Failure (CHF)


  The ability of the heart to pump blood is impaired causing fluid to back up in the lungs and other tissue

  
• Coronary Artery Disease


  Impair the ability of the coronary arteries to deliver an adequate supply of blood to the heart muscle
• Embolism


  Sudden blockage of an artery by a clot or other particle circulating in the blood
• Essential hypertension

  Type of HTN in which the cause of elevated blood pressure is unknown
• Fibrillation

  Irregular, quivering contractions of ventricular muscle resting from desynchronization of electrical impulses in the heart