0 the process in which tissue dies because something has blocked its blood supply, or an occasion on which this happens:
As soon as a few years after quitting the smoking habit, ex-smokers are at a substantially lower risk for myocardial infarction or stroke.
The second group comprised 68 patients with a patent oval foramen and had experienced transient ischemic attacks or cerebral infarctions after presumed paradoxical embolism.
Thrombosis within dilated arteries may then lead to myocardial infarction.
In another patient who underwent intracoronary thrombolysis immediately after the onset of acute myocardial infarction, myocardial imaging was not obtained prior to the procedure.
Further clarification of the mechanisms linking depression to poor outcome may require separation consideration of pre- and post-myocardial infarction depression, and its risk factors.
It was decided to manage the patient conservatively, and only to intervene if evidence of myocardial ischaemia developed, hopefully recognized prior to infarction.
Nevertheless, very interesting relevant facts were established with regard to the use of beta-blockers in the setting of acute myocardial infarction.
This study considered whether the causes of depression occurring before and after myocardial infarction were similar to those of depression in the general population.
