1,845
edits
Changes
Glossary
,no edit summary
;the patient sustained an anterior myocardial infarction;Myocardial infarction
:Myocardial infarction is necrosis of myocardial tissue which occurs as a result of a deprivation of blood supply, and thus oxygen, to the heart tissue. Blockage of blood supply to the myocardium is caused by occlusion of a coronary artery.