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2. Reperfusion therapy - Wikipedia

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   Reperfusion therapy is a medical treatment to restore blood flow, either through or around, blocked arteries, typically after a heart attack (myocardial infarction (MI)). Reperfusion therapy includes drugs and surgery. The drugs are thrombolytics and fibrinolytics used in a process called thrombolysis.

3. Cardiac arrest - Wikipedia

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   In 2021, the American Heart Association clarified that "heart attack" is often mistakenly used to describe cardiac arrest. While a heart attack refers to death of heart muscle tissue as a result of blood supply loss, cardiac arrest is caused when the heart's electrical system malfunctions. Furthermore, the American Heart Association explains ...

4. Cardioplegia - Wikipedia

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   In coronary surgery, there are various alternatives to cardioplegia to perform the operation. One is off-pump coronary surgery where the surgery is done without the need of a cardiopulmonary bypass machine. Another is to use cross-clamp fibrillation whereby the heart fibrillates whilst on cardiopulmonary bypass in order to perform the distal ...

5. Myocardial rupture - Wikipedia

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   Myocardial rupture is a laceration of the ventricles or atria of the heart, of the interatrial or interventricular septum, or of the papillary muscles. It is most commonly seen as a serious sequela of an acute myocardial infarction (heart attack). It can also be caused by trauma. [1]

6. Know heart attack signs, how to perform hands-only CPR in ...

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   A cardiac arrest is when a person's heart stops pumping blood around their body and they stop breathing normally. Calling before a heart attack becomes cardiac arrest requires knowing the signs ...

7. Myocardial infarction complications - Wikipedia

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   Myocardial infarction complications may occur immediately following a myocardial infarction (heart attack) (in the acute phase), or may need time to develop (a chronic problem). After an infarction, an obvious complication is a second infarction, which may occur in the domain of another atherosclerotic coronary artery, or in the same zone if ...