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Heart attack: Classic heart attack has a coronary artery plaque rupture. A clot forms at this spot which obstructs the artery. The downstream muscle gets ischemic then dies. This is the pathophysiologies. What causes the plaque rupture is variable.
Answered 12/10/2013
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