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What is cardiac infarction?
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Heart attack: It's another term for heart attack. Nothing else.
Answered 12/28/2013
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Infarction: Cardiac infarction = heart attack = myocardial scarring. Infarction means dead heart tissue.
Answered 9/28/2016
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