Q: is there a connection with cholesterol and myocardial infarctions?

Yes: Populations studies have shown that people with high blood cholesterol have higher incidence of myocardial infarction and other vascular disorders.

Q: where do most myocardial infarctions occur?

Varies: You have three main blood vessels feeding the heart - the right coronary, left circumflex, and the left anterior descending arteries. Narrowing can occur in any of the vessels and can be significant in any one or combination of these vessels. Bypass of the left anterior descending artery has shown the best change for improvement in life expectancy.

Q: how do a heart attack and a myocardial infarction differ?

Both are the same: Heart attack and myocardial infarction are the same condition.

Q: what is the difference between a heart attack, myocardial infarction?

Not Much: Heart attack is a general term that can include chest pain from angina to bad rhythms in your heart or any other discomfort causing heart related abnormality. However, myocardial infarction means that the blood flow to part of your heart has be compromised and is killing the muscle of your heart. This is when we take you to a catheter lab and place stents in your arteries to open up the flow.

Q: what is the difference between an acute myocardial infarction and a heart attack?

Lay term: Heart attack is the lay term for acute myocardial infarction.

Question 1

are myocardial infarctions curable?

Accepted Answer

Yes and no: Well if you truly had a myocardial infarction, some of the heart muscle has been damaged and that is not curable. But you may do well if it is just a small amount of muscle. And even if it is a larger amount, medications can improve the symptoms so that you may di fine even if there is not a cure.

Question 2

how can troponin relate to myocardial infarctions?

Accepted Answer

Enzyme from heart: Troponin is contained within heart muscle cells and in a heart attack the damaged cells 'leak" the troponin into the blood and the elevated levels can tell doctors the heart has been injured. If other clinical evidence is consistent this can help diagnose a heart attack.

Question 3

how can troponin help with myocardial infarctions?

Accepted Answer

Diagnosis: Since troponins measure damage to the heart muscle which occurs in a heart attack - the damaged/dying muscle will leak these into the serum which can be measured - they can be used to determine if a heart attack has occurred.

Question 4

the mortality rate for myocardial infarctions is what?

Accepted Answer

Goes up with age: Numbers are approximate: (all comers)
<1980: 20 % mortality
1990: (with thrombolysis):10-15%
2000: (with pci):5-10%
2010: (with drug eluting stents):2-5%
the sooner one arrives, the lower the mortality. Age, lung, kidney and cerebrovascular disease increase mortality. Age is a factor but not as much as the above.

Question 5

is there a connection with cholesterol and myocardial infarctions?

Accepted Answer

Yes: Populations studies have shown that people with high blood cholesterol have higher incidence of myocardial infarction and other vascular disorders.

Question 6

what is the age-related mortality rate for myocardial infarctions?

Accepted Answer

Goes up with age: Numbers are approximate: (all comers)
<1980: 20 % mortality
1990: (with thrombolysis):10-15%
2000: (with pci):5-10%
2010: (with drug eluting stents):2-5%
the sooner one arrives, the lower the mortality. Age, lung, kidney and cerebrovascular disease increase mortality. Age is a factor but not as much as the above.

Question 7

where do most myocardial infarctions occur?

Accepted Answer

Varies: You have three main blood vessels feeding the heart - the right coronary, left circumflex, and the left anterior descending arteries.  Narrowing can occur in any of the vessels and can be significant in any one or combination of these vessels.  Bypass of the left anterior descending artery has shown the best change for improvement in life expectancy.

Question 8

how do a heart attack and a myocardial infarction differ?

Accepted Answer

Both are the same: Heart attack and myocardial infarction are the same condition.

Question 9

what is the difference between a heart attack, myocardial infarction?

Accepted Answer

Not Much: Heart attack is a general term that can include chest pain from angina to bad rhythms in your heart or any other discomfort causing heart related abnormality.
However, myocardial infarction means that the blood flow to part of your heart has be compromised and is killing the muscle of your heart.  This is when we take you to a catheter lab and place stents in your arteries to open up the flow.

Question 10

what is the difference between an acute myocardial infarction and a heart attack?

Accepted Answer

Lay term: Heart attack is the lay term for acute  myocardial infarction.

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