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What is the difference between a heart attack, myocardial infarction?
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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.
Answered 8/10/2014
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Lay term: Heart attack is the lay term for acute myocardial infarction.
Answered 2/13/2013
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Same: Heart attack is the lay term for myocardial infarction (comes in two levels of severity..Non-st-elevation and st-elevation - which refer to changes on an ekg and broadly reflect if an arterial occlusion is total or subtotal).
Answered 8/20/2013
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