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What is hypokinesis. is it can cause heart attack?
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Coronary ischemia: Hypokinesis suggests that an area of the heart is not thickening and contracting normally typically as a result of reduced blood supply and inadequate oxygen delivery to that portion of the heart.
Answered 8/5/2015
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LITTLE MOVEMENT: The word hypo means minimal, less, slow and the word kynesis means movement. A portion of the heart muscle may become akinetic(no movement) or hypokynetic (little movement after part of it has suffered necrosis or infarction, therefore hypokinesis results from a myocardial infarction or myocardial ischemia(not infarction) but preinfarction.
Answered 6/27/2017
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