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What factors determine if a myocardial infarction isin the left or right coronary artery?

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Heart attack: Whether a plaque ruptures in which artery is probably a function of the mileu in which the artery resides. We presently can't predict which artery will cause an mi among diseased arteries in a given person. At some point in the future we might be able to predict right now.......Hit and miss.

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Dr. Creighton Wright answered

Specializes in surgery

Blockage: If the blockage is in the right then right.If in the left left. Sometimes both and difficult.

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