Myocardial Infarction (Heart Attack)

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"A heart attack occurs when the supply of blood and oxygen to an area of heart muscle is blocked, usually by a clot in a coronary artery. ...Prompt treatment of a heart attack can help prevent or limit lasting damage to the heart and can prevent sudden death. ...The sooner treatment begins, the better your chances of recovering."

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[Complications of an unrecognized myocardial infarction] (Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd. 2005)

"Around one-third of patients who have a myocardial infarction do not have chest pain but experience shortness of breath, autonomic nervous symptoms (sweating, nausea, vomiting), extreme and inexplicable tiredness and fainting. These atypical symptoms should suggest myocardial infarction. In order to avoid high morbidity and death from complications such as arrhythmias, heart failure, rupture and aneurysm formation it is important that a patient who has had a myocardial infarction should be treated as soon as possible ..."

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Myocardial Infarction (Heart Attack)

Diagnosis, Imaging, and Screening

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Impact of 64-slice cardiac computed tomographic angiography on clinical decision-making in emergency department patients with chest pain of possible myocardial ischemic origin. (Am J Cardiol. 2007 )

Usefulness of contrast echocardiography for assessment of left ventricular thrombus after acute myocardial infarction. (Am J Cardiol. 2007)

Usefulness of multislice computed tomographic coronary angiography to identify patients with abnormal myocardial perfusion stress in whom diagnostic catheterization may be safely avoided. (Am J Cardiol. 2007 )

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