Myocardial infarction topic
Also known as
- Heart Attack,
- MI,
- AMI
A heart attack, known in medicine as an (acute) myocardial infarction (AMI or MI), occurs when the blood supply to part of the heart is interrupted. This is most commonly due to occlusion (blockage) of a coronary artery following the rupture of a vulnerable atherosclerotic plaque, which is an unstable collection of lipids (like cholesterol) and white blood cell (especially macrophage) in the wall of an artery. The resulting ischemia (restriction in blood supply) and oxygen shortage, if left...
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