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2. Myocardial infarction - Wikipedia

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   Myocardial infarction; Other names: Acute myocardial infarction (AMI), heart attack: A myocardial infarction occurs when an atherosclerotic plaque slowly builds up in the inner lining of a coronary artery and then suddenly ruptures, causing catastrophic thrombus formation, totally occluding the artery and preventing blood flow downstream to the heart muscle.

3. Diagnosis of myocardial infarction - Wikipedia

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   The diagnosis of myocardial infarction requires two out of three components (history, ECG, and enzymes). When damage to the heart occurs, levels of cardiac markers rise over time, which is why blood tests for them are taken over a 24-hour period. Because these enzyme levels are not elevated immediately following a heart attack, patients ...

4. Myocardial infarction complications - Wikipedia

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   Myocardial infarction complications. 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 ...

5. If You Want to Lower Your Heart Attack Risk, Cardiologists ...

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   A cardiologist is holding up an item shaped as a heart. More than 800,000 people have a heart attack every year in the U.S. In reality, the true figure may be much higher because experts estimate ...

6. Damar Hamlin timeline: How Bills safety recovered from ... - AOL

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   Jan. 2, 2023: Damar Hamlin suffers a cardiac arrest on the field after tackling receiver Tee Higgins in the first quarter of the Bills vs. Bengals game. Hamlin briefly got up before falling to the ...

7. Tachycardia-induced cardiomyopathy - Wikipedia

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   Tachycardia-induced cardiomyopathy (TIC) is a disease where prolonged tachycardia (a fast heart rate) or arrhythmia (an irregular heart rhythm) causes an impairment of the myocardium (heart muscle), which can result in heart failure. [1][5] People with TIC may have symptoms associated with heart failure (e.g. shortness of breath or ankle ...