Thrombus

... Atheromatous plaques roughen the lining of the artery and disturb the flow of blood, which can stimulate the formation of a clot known as a thrombus. When blood comes into contact with fatty and fibrous tissue, platelets stick to the roughened surface and release clotting factors called ...

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... infectious process spreads along the vessel walls proximally, and the organism may be visualized in the arterial wall or in the outer part of the thrombus using GMS or PAS stains. Eventually the acute perivascular inflammatory reaction is replaced by granulomas containing sparse hyphae and hyphal ...

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... are produced in particularly large amounts or continually during chronic illness, this can lead to various disorders like coronary insufficiency, thrombus formation, hypoglycemia, and, in some cases, even to shock and death.15 This makes these activities particularly vulnerable to malign modulation, ...

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thrombus occur when trombocytes suddenly activate the anti-bleeding reaction....but, the bad news is...they do it in a closed system of bloodvessels..so, this kinda fibrin threads block the flow of RBC and causing aterosclerosis. ...

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After few times reading, I still found it hard to understand about arterosclerosis. Can someone explain to me again, especially the part where thrombus develops, how it the artery being blocked. Thank you.

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