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A chronic disease in which lipid plaques build up within artery walls.
Embolism
A detached intravascular mass (solid, liquid or gas) carried to a distant site.
Infarction
Tissue necrosis caused by loss of blood supply (ischaemia).
Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease
An immune complication that can follow a throat infection with group A streptococcus, in which cross-reacting immune responses damage the heart, joints and other tissues.
Aneurysms
An abnormal, permanent bulging of a blood vessel wall (or the heart), which can leak, burst or throw off clots.
Cardiomyopathy
Diseases of the heart muscle itself that weaken the heart's pumping, grouped into three main patterns by how the muscle changes.