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Bookmark or Share- Acute Myocardial Infarction - StatPearls - NCBI BookshelfMyocardial infarction (MI) causes permanent damage to the heart muscle due to inadequate oxygen supply. MI can impair diastolic and systolic function, increasing the risk of arrhythmias. Additionally, an MI can lead to various serious complications.
- What is a Heart Attack? | American Heart AssociationWhen damage or death to part of the heart muscle occurs due to ischemia, it’s called a heart attack, or myocardial infarction (MI). About every 40 seconds, someone in the United States has a heart attack.
- Myocardial Infarction - StatPearls - NCBI BookshelfMyocardial infarction (MI), colloquially known as “heart attack,” is caused by decreased or complete cessation of blood flow to a portion of the myocardium. Myocardial infarction may be “silent” and go undetected, or it could be a catastrophic event leading to hemodynamic deterioration and sudden death. [1]
- Myocardial infarction - WikipediaMyocardial infarction (MI) refers to tissue death (infarction) of the heart muscle (myocardium) caused by ischemia, the lack of oxygen delivery to myocardial tissue. It is a type of acute coronary syndrome, which describes a sudden or short-term change in symptoms related to blood flow to the heart. [22]
- Stroke - Diagnosis and treatment - Mayo ClinicIn the most common type of stroke, called an ischemic stroke, or cerebral infarction, there's a lack of blood flow to an area of the brain leading the brain cells to begin to die off due to a lack of oxygen and other nutrients. Emergency treatments can sometimes be used to restore the blood flow.
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