You discover a massive boulder obstructing the entire tunnel on Tuesday while you’re travelling through it. Not a single gap.
Apply those examples to your own health now. The arteries that supply blood to your heart are called tunnels. Blockages caused by the boulders and rubble can cause issues, as seen by symptoms.
Both blocked arteries and choked tunnels are bad for the flow of traffic and your heart.
The boulder is known as a Chronic Total Occlusion (CTO) in the field of cardiology. It denotes total blockage of the artery. 15% to 20% of patients with heart problems experience this. There may occasionally be a total obstruction for several months or even years. There is a genuine need to assist these untreated people, as barely 3% to 5% of these patients have a stent or bypass operation.