What happens during a heart attack?
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A heart attack is a lay term for what is known in the medical world as a myocardial infarction, or MI for short.
Infarction means that blood stops going to an area and the area dies from a lack of oxygen, because it is the blood that carries the oxygen.
Myocardium is the medical word for the heart muscle itself.
Therefore a myocardial infarction, or a “heart attack”, is when there is a blockage in one of the blood vessels that supply the heart muscle and that part of the heart muscle is damaged as a result.
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